Evidence map›Paper›PMID 16288553›Full record

ArticlePLoS medicine2005

Why medical students are crucial to the future of research in South Asia.

Fawad Aslam, Murtaza Shakir, Muhammad Ahad Qayyum

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Article in PLoS medicine, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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44citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

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

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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

3 authors.

Fawad AslamAga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. fawadaslam2@hotmail.com
Murtaza Shakir
Muhammad Ahad Qayyum

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Developing CountriesStudents, MedicalBiomedical ResearchHealth Services ResearchHumansIndiaPakistanSchools, Medical

Identifiers

PMID16288553
PMCPMC1297528

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