Overview of study design in clinical epidemiology.

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, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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3. Gas cooking and respiratory outcomes in children: A systematic review.Global epidemiology · 2023
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4. Epidemiology and incidence of oral squamous cell carcinoma in the Iraqi population over 5 years (2014-2018).Health science reports · 2023
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5. Recent Progress in Genetics and Epigenetics Research on Diabetic Nephropathy in Malaysia.Journal of diabetes research · 2023
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6. Randomized controlled trials - a matter of design.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2016
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7. Statistical and methodological considerations for reporting RCTs in medical literature.Korean journal of anesthesiology · 2015
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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