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ArticleAmerican journal of respiratory and critical care medicine2024

What Is the Point of Bayesian Analysis?

Ewan C Goligher, Michael O Harhay

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Article in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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17citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  6. Bayesian statistics: a primer for perioperative medicine clinicians.Perioperative medicine (London, England) · 2026
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  13. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2025
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  15. Bayesian statistics for clinical research.Lancet (London, England) · 2024
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  16. Critical Care: A Special Issue of the Blue Journal.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ewan C GoligherInterdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-0990-6701
Michael O HarhayDepartment of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and.ORCID 0000-0002-0553-674X

Funding

Advancing the design, analysis, and interpretation of acute respiratory distress syndrome trials using modern statistical toolsR01HL168202 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Michael Oscar Harhay, Fan Li · 2023 to 2026
$2.9M
Improving the measurement and analysis of long-term, patient-centered outcomes following acute respiratory failureR00HL141678 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI HARHAY, MICHAEL OSCAR · 2020 to 2022
$747k
NHLBI NIH HHS R00 HL141678NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL168202NIH HHS R00-HL141678NIH HHS R01-HL168202
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Bayes Theorem

Identifiers

PMID37922491
PMCPMC10919113

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