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ArticleClinical epidemiology2016

Helping everyone do better: a call for validation studies of routinely recorded health data.

Vera Ehrenstein, Irene Petersen, Liam Smeeth, Susan S Jick, Eric I Benchimol, Jonas F Ludvigsson, Henrik Toft Sørensen

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Article in Clinical epidemiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Vera EhrensteinDepartment of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
Irene PetersenDepartment of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; Department of Primary Care and Population Health, University College London, London, UK.
Liam SmeethDepartment of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Susan S JickBoston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Eric I BenchimolDepartment of Pediatrics and School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Jonas F LudvigssonDepartment of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Örebro, Sweden.
Henrik Toft SørensenDepartment of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/K006584/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMCPMC4835131

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