Commentary: regression discontinuity design: let's give it a try to evaluate medical and public health interventions.

What it found

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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

10 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Regression Discontinuity and Randomized Controlled Trial Estimates: An Application to The Mycotic Ulcer Treatment Trials.Ophthalmic epidemiology · 2018
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2. Effect of Treatment in a Specialized Pediatric Hemato-Oncology Setting on 5-Year Survival in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Quasi-Experimental Study.Cancers · 2022
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3. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Vaccines Using a Regression Discontinuity Design.American journal of epidemiology · 2019
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4. Causal Inference in Environmental Epidemiology: Old and New Approaches.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2019
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5. Antiretroviral Therapy and Mortality in Rural South Africa: A Comparison of Causal Modeling Approaches.American journal of epidemiology · 2018
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6. Treatment eligibility and retention in clinical HIV care: A regression discontinuity study in South Africa.PLoS medicine · 2017
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7. The value of pragmatic and observational studies in health care and public health.Pragmatic and observational research · 2017
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8. Confounding in observational studies based on large health care databases: problems and potential solutions - a primer for the clinician.Clinical epidemiology · 2017
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9. Protective Effects of Smoke-free Legislation on Birth Outcomes in England: A Regression Discontinuity Design.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2016
   Observational
10. Effect of a national requirement to introduce named accountable general practitioners for patients aged 75 or older in England: regression discontinuity analysis of general practice utilisation and continuity of care.BMJ open · 2016
    Observational

Corrections and comments

• Commented on by
  Three approaches to causal inference in regression discontinuity designs.2015
• Comment on
  Regression discontinuity designs in epidemiology: causal inference without randomized trials.2014

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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