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ArticleJournal of clinical epidemiology2021

Using preprints in evidence synthesis: Commentary on experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Barbara Clyne, Kieran A Walsh, Eamon O'Murchu, Melissa K Sharp, Laura Comber, Kirsty K O' Brien, Susan M Smith, Patricia Harrington, Michelle O'Neill, Conor Teljeur and 1 more

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Article in Journal of clinical epidemiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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16citing papers in PubMed, 4 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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

11 authors.

Barbara ClyneHealth Research Board Centre for Primary Care Research, Department of General Practice, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2, Ireland; Health Information and Quality Authority, Smithfield, Dublin 7, Ireland. Electronic address: barbaraclyne@rcsi.com.
Kieran A WalshHealth Information and Quality Authority, Smithfield, Dublin 7, Ireland.
Eamon O'MurchuHealth Information and Quality Authority, Smithfield, Dublin 7, Ireland.
Melissa K SharpHealth Research Board Centre for Primary Care Research, Department of General Practice, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Laura ComberHealth Information and Quality Authority, Smithfield, Dublin 7, Ireland.
Kirsty K O' BrienHealth Information and Quality Authority, Smithfield, Dublin 7, Ireland.
Susan M SmithHealth Research Board Centre for Primary Care Research, Department of General Practice, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Patricia HarringtonHealth Information and Quality Authority, Smithfield, Dublin 7, Ireland.
Michelle O'NeillHealth Information and Quality Authority, Smithfield, Dublin 7, Ireland.
Conor TeljeurHealth Information and Quality Authority, Smithfield, Dublin 7, Ireland.
Máirín RyanHealth Information and Quality Authority, Smithfield, Dublin 7, Ireland; Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

PandemicsPreprints as TopicReview Literature as TopicCOVID-19HumansCOVID-19Evidence synthesisPreprintsRapid reviews

Identifiers

PMID34022394
PMCPMC8132503

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.