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GuidelinePLoS medicine2016

Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting: the GATHER statement.

Gretchen A Stevens, Leontine Alkema, Robert E Black, J Ties Boerma, Gary S Collins, Majid Ezzati, John T Grove, Daniel R Hogan, Margaret C Hogan, Richard Horton and 10 more

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In one paragraph

Guideline in PLoS medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 255 papers, 16 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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255citing papers in PubMed, 16 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

255 citing papers in PubMed, 16 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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195 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Gretchen A StevensDepartment of Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Leontine AlkemaDepartment of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Robert E BlackDepartment of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
J Ties BoermaDepartment of Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Gary S CollinsNuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2772-2316
Majid EzzatiDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2109-8081
John T GroveGlobal Development Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
Daniel R HoganDepartment of Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Margaret C HoganIndependent consultant, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
Richard HortonThe Lancet, London, United Kingdom.
Joy E LawnDepartment of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Ana MarušićDepartment of Research in Biomedicine and Health and Cochrane Croatia, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia.
Colin D MathersDepartment of Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Christopher J L MurrayInstitute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
Igor RudanCentre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Joshua A SalomonDepartment of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Paul J SimpsonPLOS Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Theo VosCentre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Vivian WelchBruyére Research Institute, Bruyére Continuing Care, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
GATHER Working Group

Funding

Wellcome Trust 100693World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gretchen Stevens and colleagues present the GATHER statement, which seeks to promote good practice in the reporting of global health estimates.

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Identifiers

PMID27351744
PMCPMC4924581

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