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ArticleEpidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)2018

On Well-defined Hypothetical Interventions in the Potential Outcomes Framework.

Tyler J VanderWeele

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Article in Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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21citing papers in PubMed, 1 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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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

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

  1. How to assess applicability and methodological quality of comparative studies of operative interventions in orthopedic trauma surgery.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Tyler J VanderWeeleDepartments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA.

Funding

Theory and methods for mediation and interactionR01CA222147 · NCI · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI TCHETGEN TCHETGEN, ERIC JOEL, VANDERWEELE, TYLER · 2018 to 2022
$2.1M
Theory and methods for sufficient cause interactionsR01ES017876 · NIEHS · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI VANDERWEELE, TYLER · 2010 to 2014
$1.2M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA222147NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES017876
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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CausalityEpidemiologic StudiesOutcome Assessment, Health Care

Identifiers

PMID29561280
PMCPMC6250057

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