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ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health2003

Multilevel analytical approaches in social epidemiology: measures of health variation compared with traditional measures of association.

J Merlo

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Article in Journal of epidemiology and community health, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 103 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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103citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

103 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Association of area socioeconomic status and breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening: a systematic review.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2009
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  9. Recommendations on Methods for Assessing Multimorbidity Changes Over Time: Aligning the Method to the Purpose.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2024
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  15. Small-area contextual effects on children's dental caries in Alberta: a multilevel analysis.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2021
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43 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

J Merlo

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Data Interpretation, StatisticalResidence CharacteristicsBiasEpidemiologic MethodsFemaleHealth Status IndicatorsHumansObstetric Labor, PrematurePregnancyPublic HealthReproducibility of ResultsSocioeconomic Factors

Identifiers

PMID12883048
PMCPMC1732554

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