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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2008

Are condoms the answer to rising rates of non-HIV sexually transmitted infection? No.

Stephen J Genuis

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Pooled it
  3. Condoms in preventing STIs: Sex is fun, remember?BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2008
    Article
  4. Not used in oral sex.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2008
    Article
  5. Condoms in preventing STIs: No magic bullet.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2008
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Stephen J GenuisUniversity of Alberta, 2935-66 Street, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6K 4C1. sgenuis@ualberta.ca

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AdolescentAdultCondomsHealth PromotionHumansSexual BehaviorSexually Transmitted Diseases

Identifiers

PMID18219037
PMCPMC2213821

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