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ArticleInternational journal of public health2020

Valuing the years of life lost due to COVID-19: the differences and pitfalls.

Brecht Devleesschauwer, Scott A McDonald, Niko Speybroeck, Grant M A Wyper

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Article in International journal of public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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

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  3. Social inequalities in COVID-19-related years of life lost in metropolitan France, 2020.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025
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  19. Measuring disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to COVID-19 in Scotland, 2020.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2022
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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

4 authors.

Brecht DevleesschauwerDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2867-6892
Scott A McDonaldCentre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0788-6011
Niko SpeybroeckSchool of Public Health and Research Institute of Health and Society, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3322-3502
Grant M A WyperPlace and Wellbeing Directorate, Public Health Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. gwyper@nhs.net.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2854-5822

Funding

European Cooperation in Science and Technology CA18218 - European Burden of Disease Network
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID32691080
PMCPMC7370635

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