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More Transparency Is Needed in the Reporting of Clinical Research Studies

X. Armoiry, F. Turjman and B. Gory
American Journal of Neuroradiology January 2017, 38 (1) E6-E7; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A4982
X. Armoiry
aHospices Civils de Lyon Délégation à la Recherche Clinique et à l'Innovation Cellule Innovation/UMR-CNRS 5510/MATEIS Lyon, France
bUniversity of Warwick Warwick Medical School, Division of Health Sciences Coventry, England
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F. Turjman
cFHU IRIS, Neuroradiologie Interventionnelle Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer Hospices Civils de Lyon Lyon, France
dUniversity of Lyon 1 Lyon, France
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cFHU IRIS, Neuroradiologie Interventionnelle Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer Hospices Civils de Lyon Lyon, France
dUniversity of Lyon 1 Lyon, France
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We read with great interest the systematic review published very recently by Asnafi et al1 on the efficacy and safety of the Woven EndoBridge (WEB); (Sequent Medical, Aliso Viejo, California) aneurysm embolization system for the endovascular therapy of intracranial aneurysms. Their literature search was conducted during a fairly similar period to our previously published systematic review (January 1, 2010, to October 1, 2015, versus January 1, 2010, to September 2015, respectively).2 Most surprising, the authors included 15 articles while we selected only 7 articles. For 3 of these, the difference is because we selected articles with >10 patients, whereas Asnafi et al included studies with at least 5 patients. For the 5 remaining articles, we assume that we applied a more stringent study selection strategy aimed at detecting potential articles with duplicate published cases. Unlike the systematic review by Asnafi et al, we excluded the article by Papagiannaki et al,3 in which the authors stated that among their cohort of 85 patients, 22 and 24 (a total of 46 patients, 54.1%) of the patients also participated in the WEB Clinical Assessment of IntraSaccular Aneurysm Therapy (WEBCAST) study and the French Observatory study, respectively. Our understanding is that Asnafi et al included the article by Pierot et al,4 which combined the 2 populations from WEBCAST and the French Observatory study and the article by Papagiannaki et al. Consequently, this meta-analysis is likely to have included the same population twice, which would make the analysis invalid. Similarly, we assume that patients from several other articles selected in the final meta-analysis, like those from Cognard et al, 2015,5 and Pierot et al, 2012 and 2013,6,7 are at great risk of having been included in other articles in the meta-analysis. On this basis, clarifications should be provided by the authors because by definition, a meta-analysis cannot include several articles with overlaps in the selected population. According to the selection criteria of our systematic review, we excluded articles potentially including the same populations.

In other systematic reviews undertaken in the field of interventional neuroradiology, we have been facing the same problem of identifying duplicate published cases because some authors may publish their results in several articles. This emphasizes the need to carefully take into account several factors during the study selection process, such as the names of the authors, the location of participating centers, and the time of patient selection.

We understand that results from the same clinical research study may lead to several publications, for example, when an outcome measure is made available at different time points. However, this can be misleading within the scope of systematic reviews and the implementation of evidence synthesis methods, and may not allow a fair assessment of health technologies. This advocates for more transparency in the process of publication of clinical research studies. In practice, authors should be urged to systematically state in their article when some of their results have been partially or totally reported elsewhere.

Footnotes

  • Disclosures: Francis Turjman—UNRELATED: Consultancy: Codman, Stryker, Medtronic*; Grants/Grants Pending: Medtronic, Stryker.* *Money paid to the institution.

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    1. Armoiry X,
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    . Endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms with the WEB device: a systematic review of clinical outcomes. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2016;37:868–72 doi:10.3174/ajnr.A4611 pmid:26585260
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