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ArticleInternational journal of epidemiology2010

Commentary: like it and lump it? Meta-analysis using individual participant data.

Richard D Riley

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Article in International journal of epidemiology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 11 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  6. Excess Weight as a Risk Factor Common to Many Cancer Sites: Words of Caution when Interpreting Meta-analytic Evidence.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2017
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  14. Validation of the Care-Related Quality of Life Instrument in different study settings: findings from The Older Persons and Informal Caregivers Survey Minimum DataSet (TOPICS-MDS).Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Richard D RileyDepartment of Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Public Health Building, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. r.d.riley@bham.ac.uk

Funding

Medical Research Council G0800808
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Data Interpretation, StatisticalMeta-Analysis as TopicCoronary DiseaseFibrinogenHumansProportional Hazards ModelsRisk FactorsFibrinogen

Identifiers

PMID20660642

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.