Methods in epidemiology and public health: does practice match theory?

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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Quality of reviews on sugar-sweetened beverages and health outcomes: a systematic review.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2011
   Pooled it
2. Aphorisms and short phrases as pieces of knowledge in the pedagogical framework of the andalusian school of public health.International journal of preventive medicine · 2012
   Article
3. Teaching ethics in a masters program in public health in Lithuania.Journal of medical ethics · 2007
   Article
4. Two Surgeon General's reports on smoking and cancer: a historical investigation of the practice of causal inference.Emerging themes in epidemiology · 2006
   Article
5. A philosophical analysis of the Hill criteria.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2005
   Review

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as