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ArticleRadiology2009

Risks associated with low doses and low dose rates of ionizing radiation: why linearity may be (almost) the best we can do.

Mark P Little, Richard Wakeford, E Janet Tawn, Simon D Bouffler, Amy Berrington de Gonzalez

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Article in Radiology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 124 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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124citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

124 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Meta-analysis of published excess relative risk estimates.Radiation and environmental biophysics · 2020
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  2. Outcomes of different radioprotective precautions in children undergoing dental radiography: a systematic review.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Mark P LittleDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, St Mary's Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, England. mark.little@imperial.ac.uk
Richard Wakeford
E Janet Tawn
Simon D Bouffler
Amy Berrington de Gonzalez

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Linear ModelsProportional Hazards ModelsRisk AssessmentAir Pollution, RadioactiveBody BurdenDose-Response Relationship, RadiationEnvironmental ExposureHumansIncidenceNeoplasms, Radiation-InducedRadiation DosageRadiation, IonizingReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and Specificity

Identifiers

PMID19332841
PMCPMC2663578

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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.