Representativeness.

Lorenzo Richiardi, Costanza Pizzi, Neil Pearce

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In one paragraph

Article in International journal of epidemiology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it

–field-weighted citation impact

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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

Comparison of risk factor associations in UK Biobank against representative, general population based studies with conventional response rates: prospective cohort study and individual participant meta-analysis.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2020
Pooled it
A French multicentric prospective prognostic cohort with epidemiological, clinical, biological and treatment information to improve knowledge on lymphoma patients: study protocol of the "REal world dAta in LYmphoma and survival in adults" (REALYSA) cohort.BMC public health · 2021
Article
Deciphering the Impact of Early-Life Exposures to Highly Variable Environmental Factors on Foetal and Child Health: Design of SEPAGES Couple-Child Cohort.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
Article
Determinants of Antithrombotic Treatment for Atrial Fibrillation in Octogenarians: Results of the OCTOFA Study.Clinical drug investigation · 2019
Article
Chronic disease research in Europe and the need for integrated population cohorts.European journal of epidemiology · 2017
Article
Re: Some Thoughts on Consequential Epidemiology and Causal Architecture.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2017
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The Author Responds.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2017
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Comment on
Why representativeness should be avoided.2013

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Lorenzo RichiardiCancer Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin and CPO-Piemonte, Turin, Italy, Centre for Statistical Methodology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Departments of Medical Statistics and Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK and Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand.

Costanza Pizzi

Neil Pearce

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Epidemiologic StudiesSampling Studies

Identifiers

PMID24443500

DOI10.1093/ije/dyt271

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