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ReviewChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2025

The Pharmacokinetics, Dosage, Preparation Forms, and Efficacy of Orally Administered Melatonin for Non-Organic Sleep Disorders in Autism Spectrum Disorder During Childhood and Adolescence: A Systematic Review.

Ekkehart Paditz, Bertold Renner, Rainer Koch, Barbara M Schneider, Angelika A Schlarb, Osman S Ipsiroglu

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Review in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ekkehart PaditzCentre for Applied Prevention/Zentrum für Angewandte Prävention, 01307 Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9855-2705
Bertold RennerInstitute of Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden University of Technology, 01069 Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0845-6793
Rainer KochFormerly Institute for Medical Informatics and Biometry, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden University of Technology, 01069 Dresden, Germany.
Barbara M SchneiderPaediatric Sleep Medicine Centre in Foundation, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4, Canada.
Angelika A SchlarbFaculty of Psychology and Sports Science, Bielefeld University, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany.
Osman S IpsirogluInterdisciplinary Sleep Program, Sleep/Wake-Behaviour Clinic, Departments of Pediatrics & Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

autism spectrum disordermelatonin in children and adolescentsnon-delayed preparationspharmacokineticsRCTsleep

Identifiers

PMID40426828
PMCPMC12110111

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