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ArticleEnvironmental health perspectives2015

Response to "Comment on 'Background Ionizing Radiation and the Risk of Childhood Cancer: A Census-Based Nationwide Cohort Study'".

Ben D Spycher, Martin Röösli, Matthias Egger, Claudia E Kuehni

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Article in Environmental health perspectives, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis 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

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

  1. Pooled it
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Ben D SpycherInstitute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Martin Röösli
Matthias Egger
Claudia E Kuehni

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Background RadiationFemaleHumansMaleNeoplasms, Radiation-InducedRadiation Exposure

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PMID26230634
PMCPMC4526129

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