Evidence map›Paper›PMID 8935450›Full record

ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health1996

Randomised controlled trial of anti-smoking advice in pregnancy. 1977.

J W Donovan

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Article in Journal of epidemiology and community health, 1996. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Interventions for promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2009
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

J W Donovan

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In a randomised controlled trial intensive individual anti-smoking advice given in parallel with hospital antenatal care did not influence the outcome of pregnancy. The belief that retardation of fetal growth caused by maternal smoking occurs in late pregnancy is not well based, and the advice may not have been given in time to be effective. Other possible interpretations of the results, that maternal smoking is merely an index of some other factor that retards growth or that those counselled did not reduce their smoking sufficiently to influence outcome, cannot be excluded.

Indexed as

Smoking CessationFemaleFetal Growth RetardationHistory, 20th CenturyHumansPatient Education as TopicPregnancyRandomized Controlled Trials as Topic

Identifiers

PMID8935450
PMCPMC1060275

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