Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39985144›Full record

ArticleStatistics in medicine2025

A Double Machine Learning Approach for the Evaluation of COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Under the Test-Negative Design: Analysis of Québec Administrative Data.

Cong Jiang, Denis Talbot, Sara Carazo, Mireille E Schnitzer

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Statistics in medicine, 2025. 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.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Article
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

4 authors.

Cong JiangFaculty of Pharmacy, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4486-5423
Denis TalbotDépartement de médecine sociale et préventive, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0431-3314
Sara CarazoInstitut national de santé publique du Québec, Quebec City, Canada.
Mireille E SchnitzerFaculty of Pharmacy, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8049-9646

Funding

Canada Research ChairsCentre de Recherches MathématiquesCIHRFonds de Recherche du Québec - Santé
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The test-negative design (TND), which is routinely used for monitoring seasonal flu vaccine effectiveness (VE), has recently become integral to COVID-19 vaccine surveillance, notably in Québec, Canada. Some studies have addressed the identifiability and estimation of causal parameters under the TND, but efficiency bounds for nonparametric estimators of the target parameter under the unconfoundedness assumption have not yet been investigated. Motivated by the goal of improving adjustment for measured confounders when estimating COVID-19 VE among community-dwelling people aged

Indexed as

COVID-19COVID-19 VaccinesMachine LearningVaccine EfficacyAgedHumansMiddle AgedModels, StatisticalQuebecSARS-CoV-2COVID-19 Vaccinesdoubly robustefficiency boundsmachine learningoutcome‐dependent samplingsample splitting

Identifiers

PMID39985144
PMCPMC11845851

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.