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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2024

ROBVALU: a tool for assessing risk of bias in studies about people's values, utilities, or importance of health outcomes.

Samer G Karam, Yuan Zhang, Hector Pardo-Hernandez, Uwe Siebert, Laura Koopman, Jane Noyes, Jean-Eric Tarride, Adrienne L Stevens, Vivian Welch, Zuleika Saz-Parkinson and 8 more

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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

  1. Health utility book: A systematic review and meta-analysis of health utilities in gastric cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025
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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

18 authors.

Samer G KaramDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Yuan ZhangDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Hector Pardo-HernandezIberoamerican Cochrane Centre, Sant Antoni Maria Claret, Barcelona, Spain.
Uwe SiebertDepartment of Public Health, Health Services Research and Health Technology Assessment, Institute of Public Health, Medical Decision Making and Health Technology Assessment, UMIT TIROL-University for Health Sciences and Technology, Hall in Tirol, Austria.
Laura KoopmanDepartment of Specialist Medical Care, National Health Care Institute, Diemen, Netherlands.
Jane NoyesSchool of Medical and Health Sciences, Bangor University, Wales, UK.
Jean-Eric TarrideDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Adrienne L StevensCentre for Immunisation Programmes, Public Health Agency of Canada, ON, Canada.
Vivian WelchBruyère Research Institute and, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Zuleika Saz-ParkinsonEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy.
Brendalynn EnsImplementation Support and Knowledge Mobilisation, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Tahira DevjiTemerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Feng XieDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Glen HazlewoodDepartment of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Lawrence MbuagbawDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Pablo Alonso-CoelloIberoamerican Cochrane Centre, Sant Antoni Maria Claret, Barcelona, Spain.
Jan L BrozekDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Holger J SchünemannDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada schuneh@mcmaster.ca.ORCID 0000-0003-3211-8479

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BiasHumansOutcome Assessment, Health CareRisk Assessment

Identifiers

PMID38866410
PMCPMC11167527

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