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ReviewO&G open2025

Misinformation and Junk Science in Obstetrics Medical Malpractice.

Michael G Ross

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Review in O&G open, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Generational Leaps in Intrapartum Fetal Surveillance.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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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

1 author.

Michael G RossDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Public Health, Geffen School of Medicine, the Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA, and the Institute for Women' and Children's Health, the Lundquist Institute, Los Angeles, California.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The practice of obstetrics continues to be influenced by concerns of medical-legal liability. Whereas assessments of clinical practice are commonly judged against society and community standards, issues of injury causation often are analyzed by a more complex scientific integration of anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology.

Identifiers

PMID41000290
PMCPMC12456507

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.