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ArticleNature medicine2026

The TARGET guideline for reporting observational studies of interventions.

Harrison J Hansford, James H McAuley, Sonja A Swanson, Nazrul Islam, Issa J Dahabreh, Barbra A Dickerman, Matthias Egger, Xabier Garcia-Albeniz, Robert M Golub, Sara Lodi and 10 more

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Article in Nature medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Harrison J HansfordSchool of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5942-8509
James H McAuleySchool of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Sonja A SwansonDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Nazrul IslamFaculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Issa J DahabrehCAUSALab, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Barbra A DickermanDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Matthias EggerCenter for Reproducible Science & Research Synthesis, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Xabier Garcia-AlbenizCAUSALab, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Robert M GolubDepartment of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-3270-0632
Sara LodiCAUSALab, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Margarita Moreno-BetancurClinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics Unit, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Sallie-Anne PearsonMedicines Intelligence Research Program, School of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7137-6855
Sebastian SchneeweissDivision of Pharmacoepidemiology, Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Jonathan A C SternePopulation Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8496-6053
Melissa K SharpDepartment of Public Health and Epidemiology, School of Population Health, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland.
Matthew D JonesSchool of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5534-755X
Elizabeth A StuartDepartment of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Hopin LeeUniversity of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK.
Miguel A HernánCAUSALab, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1619-8456
Aidan G CashinCentre for Pain IMPACT, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. a.cashin@neura.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4190-7912

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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