Issues in the use of stepped wedge cluster and alternative designs in the case of pandemics.

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.

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.

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Response adaptive intervention allocation in stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials.Statistics in medicine · 2022
   Article
2. Stepped wedge cluster randomised trials: a review of the statistical methodology used and available.BMC medical research methodology · 2016
   Review
3. The need to balance merits and limitations from different disciplines when considering the stepped wedge cluster randomized trial design.BMC medical research methodology · 2015
   Article
4. Statistical power and validity of Ebola vaccine trials in Sierra Leone: a simulation study of trial design and analysis.The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2015
   Article

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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