Malaria diagnosis and treatment: one size does not fit all.

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.

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.

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

1. On-chip imaging of Schistosoma haematobium eggs in urine for diagnosis by computer vision.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2013
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2. Sensitivity of microscopy compared to molecular diagnosis of p. Falciparum: implications on malaria treatment in epidemic areas in kenya.African journal of infectious diseases · 2011
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3. Prescribing practice for malaria following introduction of artemether-lumefantrine in an urban area with declining endemicity in West Africa.Malaria journal · 2010
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Corrections and comments

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  Teaching health workers malaria diagnosis.2005

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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