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ReviewBMJ (Clinical research ed.)1999

Methods in health service research. An introduction to bayesian methods in health technology assessment.

D J Spiegelhalter, J P Myles, D R Jones, K R Abrams

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Review in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 102 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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102citing papers in PubMed, 11 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

102 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Bayesian Approaches for Confirmatory Trials in Rare Diseases: Opportunities and Challenges.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  16. Unexpected results of a randomized quality improvement program for children with severe asthma.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2021
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42 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

D J SpiegelhalterMRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge CB2 2SR. spieghalter@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
J P Myles
D R Jones
K R Abrams

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Bayes TheoremTechnology Assessment, BiomedicalBiasClinical Trials as TopicDecision MakingEvidence-Based MedicineRandomized Controlled Trials as Topic

Identifiers

PMID10454409
PMCPMC1116393

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Registered trials

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