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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)1996

Does the variation in the socioeconomic characteristics of an area affect mortality?

Y Ben-Shlomo, I R White, M Marmot

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 1996. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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40citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Y Ben-ShlomoDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Medical School.
I R White
M Marmot

Funding

Medical Research Council G8802774
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Health Status IndicatorsMortalitySocioeconomic FactorsEnglandFemaleHumansMalePovertyPoverty AreasSmall-Area Analysis

Identifiers

PMID8616348
PMCPMC2350820

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