Evidence map›Paper›PMID 17455998›Full record

ArticlePLoS medicine2007

XDR-TB in South Africa: theory and practice.

Jason Andrews, Sanjay Basu, David Scales, Duncan Smith-Rohrberg Maru, Ramnath Subbaraman

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Article in PLoS medicine, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing 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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Averting epidemics of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2009
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jason Andrews
Sanjay Basu
David Scales
Duncan Smith-Rohrberg Maru
Ramnath Subbaraman

Funding

Miriam/Brown/Tufts Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research ProgramD43TW000237 · FIC · MIRIAM HOSPITAL · PI CU-UVIN, SUSAN · 1993 to 2014
$10.6M
FIC NIH HHS D43 TW000237
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Patient IsolationPractice Guidelines as TopicAntitubercular AgentsHumansPlanning TechniquesSouth AfricaTuberculosis, Multidrug-ResistantAntitubercular Agents

Identifiers

PMID17455998
PMCPMC1876421

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