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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2017

Life expectancy difference and life expectancy ratio: two measures of treatment effects in randomised trials with non-proportional hazards.

Hakim-Moulay Dehbi, Patrick Royston, Allan Hackshaw

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers, 5 of them syntheses 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

60 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Hakim-Moulay DehbiCancer Research UK and UCL Cancer Trials Centre, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 4TJ, UK h.dehbi.11@ucl.ac.uk.
Patrick RoystonMRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway Road, London, WC2B 6NH, UK.
Allan HackshawCancer Research UK and UCL Cancer Trials Centre, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 4TJ, UK.

Funding

Cancer Research UK 15953
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Life ExpectancyData Interpretation, StatisticalHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateRandomized Controlled Trials as Topic

Identifiers

PMID28546261
PMCPMC5444092

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