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ReviewBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2003

Ethics and SARS: lessons from Toronto.

Peter A Singer, Solomon R Benatar, Mark Bernstein, Abdallah S Daar, Bernard M Dickens, Susan K MacRae, Ross E G Upshur, Linda Wright, Randi Zlotnik Shaul

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In one paragraph

Review in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
71citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

71 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Ethical Preparedness for U.S. Biocontainment Units.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2026
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  8. Making It Work: The Experiences of Delivering a Community Mental Health Service during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  11. The brave new world of pandemic resilience.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2022
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  15. GLOBAL PANDEMICS: CONSIDERATIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND BIOETHICS.Journal of intercultural management and ethics · 2021
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11 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

9 authors.

Peter A SingerUniversity of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, 88 College St, Toronto, Canada M5G 1L4. peter.singer@utoronto.ca
Solomon R Benatar
Mark Bernstein
Abdallah S Daar
Bernard M Dickens
Susan K MacRae
Ross E G Upshur
Linda Wright
Randi Zlotnik Shaul

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Communicable Disease ControlConfidentialityDecision MakingEthics, MedicalGlobal HealthHumansOntarioProfessional PracticeSevere Acute Respiratory SyndromeHealth Care and Public Health

Identifiers

PMID14656848
PMCPMC286332

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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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.