Postcodes don't indicate individuals' social class.

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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Effect of socioeconomic status on mortality after bacteremia in working-age patients. A Danish population-based cohort study.PloS one · 2013
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2. The relation between socioeconomic status and short-term mortality after acute myocardial infarction persists in the elderly: results from a nationwide study.European journal of epidemiology · 2012
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3. Social inequalities in stage at diagnosis of rectal but not in colonic cancer: a nationwide study.British journal of cancer · 2008
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4. Statin treatment and reduced risk of pneumonia in patients with diabetes.Thorax · 2006
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5. Mortality after acute myocardial infarction according to income and education.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2006
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6. Assessing socioeconomic status in adolescents: the validity of a home affluence scale.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2002
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7. Low socioeconomic class is a risk factor for upper and lower gastrointestinal symptoms: a population based study in 15 000 Australian adults.Gut · 2001
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8. Relation of socioeconomic position to the case fatality, prognosis and treatment of myocardial infarction events; the FINMONICA MI Register Study.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2001
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9. Do area-based markers of poverty accurately measure personal poverty?Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Postcodes as useful markers of social class: population based study in 26 000 British households.1999
• Comment on
  Commentary: socioeconomic position should be measured accurately.1999

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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