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ArticleNicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco2021

E-cigarettes and Cessation: The Introduction of Substantial Bias in Analyses of PATH Study.

John P Pierce, Eric C Leas, Tarik Benmarhnia, Sara B McMenamin, David R Strong, Ruifeng Chen, Karen Messer

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Article in Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. E-cigarettes and Cessation: Asking Different Questions Requires Different Methods.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

John P PierceHerbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
Eric C LeasHerbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
Tarik BenmarhniaHerbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
Sara B McMenaminHerbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.ORCID 0000-0003-3235-6936
David R StrongHerbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
Ruifeng ChenHerbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
Karen MesserHerbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

Funding

The role of ENDS use in changing rates of escalation and quitting of cigarette smoking in those under age 35 years in US populationR01CA234539 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI BENMARHNIA, TARIK, PIERCE, JOHN P · 2018 to 2020
$1.2M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA234539
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Electronic Nicotine Delivery SystemsSmoking CessationBiasHealth BehaviorHumans

Identifiers

PMID33188408
PMCPMC8522440

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