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ArticleJAMA2020

When Can Intermediate Outcomes Be Used as Surrogate Outcomes?

David L DeMets, Bruce M Psaty, Thomas R Fleming

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Article in JAMA, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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29citing 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

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

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

David L DeMetsDepartment of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Bruce M PsatyDepartment of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle.
Thomas R FlemingDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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NeoplasmsHumansImmunologic FactorsOutcome Assessment, Health CareImmunologic Factors

Identifiers

PMID32105291

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