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ArticleInternational journal of epidemiology2013

Post hoc decision-making in observational epidemiology--is there need for better research standards?

Mika Kivimäki, Archana Singh-Manoux, Jane E Ferrie, G David Batty

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Article in International journal of epidemiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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9citing 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

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

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  3. Associations of job strain and lifestyle risk factors with risk of coronary artery disease: a meta-analysis of individual participant data.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2013
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  7. Caution; Confusion Ahead….AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2017
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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.

Mika Kivimäki
Archana Singh-Manoux
Jane E Ferrie
G David Batty

Funding

Socio-economic status and heterogeneity in agingR01AG013196 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF LONDON INST OF NEUROLOGY · PI MARMOT, MICHAEL G, SINGH-MANOUX, ARCHANA · 1996 to 2013
$3.5M
Socioeconomic gradient in CHD in early old ageR01HL036310 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF LONDON · PI KIVIMAKI, MIKA J, MARMOT, MICHAEL G · 1986 to 2012
$3.1M
Health behaviors over the adult lifecourse and cognitive agingR01AG034454 · NIA · UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · PI KIVIMAKI, MIKA J, SINGH-MANOUX, ARCHANA · 2009 to 2013
$1.5M
British Heart Foundation PG/11/63/29011British Heart Foundation RG/13/2/30098Medical Research Council G0700704/ 84698Medical Research Council K013351NHLBI NIH HHS R01HL036310NIA NIH HHS R01AG013196NIA NIH HHS R01AG034454
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Decision MakingEpidemiologic StudiesHumansResearch Design

Identifiers

PMID23569177
PMCPMC3619956

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