Evidence map›Paper›PMID 17068038›Full record

ReviewBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2006

Influenza vaccination: policy versus evidence.

Tom Jefferson

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
32citing papers in PubMed, 4 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

32 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Pneumococcal vaccines for children and adults with bronchiectasis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2009
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  4. Influenza vaccine for children and adults with bronchiectasis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2007
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  19. The invention of the swine-flu pandemic.European journal of epidemiology · 2011
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Tom JeffersonCochrane Vaccines Field, Anguillara Sabazia, Roma 00061, Italy. jefferson.tom@gmail.com

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Evidence-Based MedicineHealth PolicyInfluenza VaccinesAdultAgedChildFemaleHumansInfluenza, HumanMalePatient SelectionRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicVaccinationInfluenza Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID17068038
PMCPMC1626345

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.