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ArticleCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2010

Registration of observational studies: is it time?

Rebecca J Williams, Tony Tse, William R Harlan, Deborah A Zarin

Abstract read
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Article in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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62citing 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

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

  1. Unravelling the association between accelerometer-derived physical activity and adiposity among preschool children: A systematic review and meta-analyses.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2020
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  4. Disclosure of research results: a randomized study on GENEPSO-PS cohort participants.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2016
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2 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Rebecca J WilliamsNational Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, UnitedStates Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, USA. williamsre@mail.nih.gov
Tony Tse
William R Harlan
Deborah A Zarin

Funding

ClinicalTrial Registration and Results ReportingZIALM008926 · NLM · NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE · PI ZARIN, DEBORAH · 2009 to 2014
$4.3M
Intramural NIH HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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RegistriesBiasBiomedical ResearchHumansNational Library of Medicine (U.S.)United States

Identifiers

PMID20643833
PMCPMC2952011

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