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ArticleThe Lancet. Public health2021

PHQ-8 scores and estimation of depression prevalence.

Brooke Levis, Felix Fischer, Andrea Benedetti, Brett D Thombs

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Article in The Lancet. Public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Brooke LevisCentre for Prognosis Research, School of Medicine, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK. Electronic address: brooke.levis@mail.mcgill.ca.
Felix FischerDepartment of Psychosomatic Medicine, Center for Internal Medicine and Dermatology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
Andrea BenedettiDepartment of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada; Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada; Respiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Brett D ThombsDepartment of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada; Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada; Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada; Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada; Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada; Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, QC, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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DepressionHumansPrevalenceSurveys and Questionnaires

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PMID34756166

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