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Health Utility Book (HUB)-Cancer: Protocol for a Systematic Literature Review of Health State Utility Values in Cancer.

Michael James Zoratti, Ting Zhou, Kelvin Chan, Oren Levine, Murray Krahn, Don Husereau, Tammy Clifford, Holger Schunemann, Gordon Guyatt, Feng Xie

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Article in MDM policy & practice. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing 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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Health utility book: A systematic review and meta-analysis of health utilities in gastric cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025
    Pooled it
  3. A Systematic Literature Review of Health Utility Values in Breast Cancer.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2022
    Pooled it
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Michael James ZorattiDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3069-1159
Ting ZhouDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Kelvin ChanSunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2501-3057
Oren LevineDepartment of Oncology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Murray KrahnToronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Don HusereauFaculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Tammy CliffordCanadian Institutes for Health Research, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Holger SchunemannDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Gordon GuyattDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Feng XieDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

health state utility valuesmedical oncologysystematic review

Identifiers

PMID31453359
PMCPMC6696850

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