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ArticleEuropean journal of clinical investigation2021

Challenges in determining causality: An ongoing critique of Bendavid et al's 'Assessing mandatory stay-at-home and business closure effects on the spread of COVID-19'.

Lonni Besançon, Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, Emilio Zanetti Chini, Hermann Fuchs, Antoine Flahault

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Article in European journal of clinical investigation, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Lonni BesançonFaculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, Vic., Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-7207-1276
Gideon Meyerowitz-KatzUniversity of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-1156-9345
Emilio Zanetti ChiniDepartment of Economics and Law, Sapienza University Rome, Roma, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9346-2869
Hermann FuchsIndependent, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1271-8410
Antoine FlahaultFaculty of Medicine, Institute of Global Health, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-6957-2977

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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COVID-19CausalityCommerceHumansLongitudinal StudiesSARS-CoV-2

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PMID33998694
PMCPMC8209814

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