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ArticleAutism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research2022

Inaccurate prevalence estimates impacts autism policy: A letter to the editor in relation to "Global prevalence of autism: A systematic review update" by Zeidan et al. (2022).

Andres Roman-Urrestarazu, Robin van Kessel

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Article in Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing 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

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Andres Roman-UrrestarazuAutism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2405-9432
Robin van KesselDepartment of International Health, School CAPHRI, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-6309-6343

Funding

Commonwealth Fund.Harkness Fellowship
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Autism Spectrum DisorderAutistic DisorderHumansPolicyPrevalenceSystematic Reviews as Topic

Identifiers

PMID35570469
PMCPMC9322680

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