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ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA

The space race and biodefense: lessons from NASA about big science and the role of medical informatics.

Michael M Wagner

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Article in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Medical informatics and preparedness.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Michael M WagnerRODS Laboratory, Center for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA. mmw@cbmi.upmc.edu

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The events that followed the launch of Sputnik on Oct 4, 1957, provide a metaphor for the events that are following the first bioterroristic case of pulmonary anthrax in the United States. This paper uses that metaphor to elucidate the nature of the task ahead and to suggest questions such as, Can the goals of the biodefense effort be formulated as concisely and concretely as the goal of the space program? Can we measure success in biodefense as we did for the space project? What are the existing resources that are the equivalents of propulsion systems and rocket engineers that can be applied to the problems of biodefense?

Indexed as

BioterrorismAnthraxDisaster PlanningHistory, 20th CenturyHumansInformation SystemsPopulation SurveillanceSpace FlightUnited StatesUnited States National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Identifiers

PMID11861624
PMCPMC344566

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