A review of randomised controlled trials published in Archives of Disease in Childhood from 1982-96.

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.

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.

Who cites it

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

1. Gastroenteritis Therapies in Developed Countries: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.PloS one · 2015
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2. Randomized controlled trials of antibiotics for neonatal infections: a systematic review.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2013
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3. Quality of reporting of neonatal and infant trials in high-impact journals.Pediatrics · 2011
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4. Augmenting Insufficiently Accruing Oncology Clinical Trials Using Generative Models: Validation Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025
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5. Success rate of nitrous oxide-oxygen procedural sedation in dental patients: systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of dental anesthesia and pain medicine · 2021
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6. The uncertain fate of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) pediatric research portfolio.Pediatric research · 2018
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7. Quality of life in parents of preterm infants in a randomized nutritional intervention trial.Food & nutrition research · 2016
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8. Pediatric nephrologists' beliefs regarding randomized controlled trials.Journal of investigative medicine : the official publication of the American Federation for Clinical Research · 2014
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9. Blinding in pharmacological trials: the devil is in the details.Archives of disease in childhood · 2013
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10. 10-year trend in quantity and quality of pediatric randomized controlled trials published in mainland China: 2002-2011.BMC pediatrics · 2013
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11. Pediatric clinical trials.Perspectives in clinical research · 2013
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12. The European paediatric legislation: benefits and perspectives.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2010
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13. Published pediatric randomized drug trials in developing countries, 1996-2002.Paediatric drugs · 2010
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14. How do parents experience being asked to enter a child in a randomised controlled trial?BMC medical ethics · 2009
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15. Making a difference: the clinical research programme for children.Archives of disease in childhood · 2007
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16. "Bonne Année", "Gutes Neues Jahr"? Will 2007 be a "Happy New Year" for children's medicines in Europe?Archives of disease in childhood · 2007
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17. A major new initiative to improve treatment for children.Archives of disease in childhood · 2006
    Review
18. Research in general paediatrics.Archives of disease in childhood · 2004
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19. Perinatal pathology in the context of a clinical trial: attitudes of bereaved parents.Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition · 2004
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20. An ethics-based approach to global child health research.Paediatrics & child health · 2003
    Article

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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