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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2017

Use of Oral Corticosteroids and Risk of Hip Fracture in the Elderly in a Case-Control Study.

Shih-Wei Lai, Cheng-Li Lin, Kuan-Fu Liao

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Shih-Wei LaiCollege of Medicine, China Medical UniversityTaichung, Taiwan.
Cheng-Li LinCollege of Medicine, China Medical UniversityTaichung, Taiwan.
Kuan-Fu LiaoGraduate Institute of Integrated Medicine, China Medical UniversityTaichung, Taiwan.
China Medical University Hospital · TWChina Medical University · TW

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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elderlyhip fractureoral corticosteroids

Identifiers

PMID28955230
PMCPMC5600992
OpenAlexW2754229905

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