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ArticleNEJM evidence2023

Scientific Inference Does Not Rest on Statistical Testing.

Thomas A Trikalinos

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Article in NEJM evidence, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Thomas A TrikalinosDepartments of Health Services, Policy & Practice and of Biostatistics and Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Strategic Timing of AntiRetroviral Treatment (START) trial found that in patients with HIV and CD4

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HIV InfectionsCD4 Lymphocyte CountHumans

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PMID38320048

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Registered trials

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