Response: FACEing reality: productive tensions between our epidemiological questions, methods and mission.

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.

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

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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  The tale wagged by the DAG: broadening the scope of causal inference and explanation for epidemiology.2016
• Comment on
  Commentary: On Causes, Causal Inference, and Potential Outcomes.2016
• Comment on
  Commentary: The formal approach to quantitative causal inference in epidemiology: misguided or misrepresented?2016
• Comment on
  Commentary: Counterfactual causation and streetlamps: what is to be done?2016
• Comment on
  Commentary: Causal inference in epidemiology: potential outcomes, pluralism and peer review.2016
• Comment on
  Commentary: DAGs and the restricted potential outcomes approach are tools, not theories of causation.2016

Authors and funding

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Funding

Abstract

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