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ArticleEuropean journal of epidemiology2022

Years of life lost methods must remain fully equitable and accountable.

Grant M A Wyper, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Colin D Mathers, Scott A McDonald, Niko Speybroeck

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Article in European journal of epidemiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

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

  1. 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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  9. How should we speak about years of life lost (YLL) values?European journal of epidemiology · 2023
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  11. 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

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Grant M A WyperPlace and Wellbeing Directorate, Public Health Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. grant.wyper@phs.scot.ORCID 0000-0003-2854-5822
Brecht DevleesschauwerDepartment of Translational Physiology, Infectiology and Public Health, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-2867-6892
Colin D MathersConsultant on Global Health, Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-0617-6731
Scott A McDonaldCentre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-0788-6011
Niko SpeybroeckResearch Institute of Health and Society (IRSS), Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-3322-3502

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Identifiers

PMID35244840
PMCPMC8894819

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