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ArticleThe Lancet. Global health2018

Implications of WASH Benefits trials for water and sanitation - Authors' reply.

Benjamin F Arnold, Clair Null, Stephen P Luby, John M Colford

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Article in The Lancet. Global health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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21citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. System Approaches to Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene: A Systematic Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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  2. Does Basic Sanitation Prevent Diarrhea? Contextualizing Recent Intervention Trials through a Historical Lens.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
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  16. Sanitation for Low-Income Regions: A Cross-Disciplinary Review.Annual review of environment and resources · 2019
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  18. Community-Led Total Sanitation Moves the Needle on Ending Open Defecation in Zambia.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Benjamin F ArnoldDivision of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Electronic address: benarnold@berkeley.edu.
Clair NullCenter for International Policy Research and Evaluation, Mathematica Policy Research, Washington, DC, USA.
Stephen P LubyDivision of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
John M ColfordDivision of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

SanitationWaterHand DisinfectionWater SupplyWater

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.