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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2022

On the 12th Day of Christmas, a Statistician Sent to Me . . .

Richard D Riley, Tim J Cole, Jon Deeks, Jamie J Kirkham, Julie Morris, Rafael Perera, Angie Wade, Gary S Collins

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

8 authors.

Richard D RileyInstitute of Applied Health Research, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK r.d.riley@bham.ac.uk.
Tim J ColeUCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK.
Jon DeeksInstitute of Applied Health Research, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Jamie J KirkhamCentre for Biostatistics, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK.
Julie MorrisUniversity of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Rafael PereraNuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Angie WadeUCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK.
Gary S CollinsCentre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Funding

Cancer Research UK 27294
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Identifiers

PMID36593578
PMCPMC9844255

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