ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)1995
Commentary: scientific heads are not turned by rhetoric.
Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 1995. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled 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.
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
7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Overinterpretation and misreporting of prognostic factor studies in oncology: a systematic review.British journal of cancer · 2018Pooled it
- Linguistic spin in randomized controlled trials about age-related macular degeneration.Frontiers in epidemiology · 2022Article
- Misrepresentation and distortion of research in biomedical literature.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
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- Reporting the findings of clinical trials: a discussion paper.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2008Article
- The case for structuring the discussion of scientific papers.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1999Article
- The rhetoric of research. Embrace scientific rhetoric for its power.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1995Article
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1 author.
Funding
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Abstract
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Registered trials
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