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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2012

Reporting guidelines and the American Journal of Public Health's adoption of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses.

Kenneth R McLeroy, Mary E Northridge, Hector Balcazar, Michael R Greenberg, Stewart J Landers

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Article in American journal of public health, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 14 of them syntheses that 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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 14 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Kenneth R McLeroyDepartment of Social and Behavioral Health, Texas A&M School of Rural Public Health, College Station, TX, USA. kmcleroy@srph.tamhsc.edu
Mary E Northridge
Hector Balcazar
Michael R Greenberg
Stewart J Landers

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Widespread recognition of the need to improve the science of published research, as well as the moral and ethical reasons for adequately reporting study results, has spurred recent interest in strengthening journal research reporting through the use of reporting guidelines. Reporting guidelines also provide information for readers to judge study quality. American Journal of Public Health previously adopted the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials and Transparent Reporting of Evaluations With Nonrandomized Designs guidelines and recently endorsed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. In adopting these guidelines, the journal aims to support authors, reviewers, and editors in reporting and evaluating systematic reviews of public health policy and practice priorities.

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Guidelines as TopicMeta-Analysis as TopicReview Literature as TopicEvidence-Based MedicineHumansPeriodicals as TopicPublic HealthResearch

Identifiers

PMID22420806
PMCPMC3483925

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