ArticleMedical care2018
Counter-Point: Early Warning Systems Are Imperfect, but Essential.
Article in Medical care, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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
3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Design, analysis, power, and sample size calculation for three-phase interrupted time series analysis in evaluation of health policy interventions.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2020Article
- Simulation-based power and sample size calculation for designing interrupted time series analyses of count outcomes in evaluation of health policy interventions.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2020Article
- Counter-Point: Staying Honest When Policy Changes Backfire.Medical care · 2018Article
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4 authors.
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Abstract
Sequential analysis can be used as an early warning system about potential unintended consequences of health policy decisions, generating follow-up investigations, but it should not be used as causal evidence.
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