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ArticleBiomedical engineering online2008

Medical information systems: a foundation for healthcare technologies in developing countries.

Gari D Clifford, Joaquin A Blaya, Rachel Hall-Clifford, Hamish Sf Fraser

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Article in Biomedical engineering online, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Telemedicine in clinical setting.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2016
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  9. Telepointer technology in telemedicine: a review.Biomedical engineering online · 2013
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  14. Robust parameter extraction for decision support using multimodal intensive care data.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2009
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  15. Mobile Care (Moca) for Remote Diagnosis and Screening.Journal of health informatics in developing countries · 2009
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  16. E-health in low to middle income countries.Journal of medical engineering & technology
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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

4 authors.

Gari D Clifford
Joaquin A Blaya
Rachel Hall-Clifford
Hamish Sf Fraser

Funding

Integrating Data, Models, and Reasoning in Critical CareR01EB001659 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI MARK, ROGER GREENWOOD · 2003 to 2012
$9.8M
Shared Distributed Learning for Developing Medical Informatics Capacity in AfricaD43TW007004 · FIC · UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL · PI MAHARAJ, MANOJ SEWAK, MARS, MAURICE · 2004 to 2013
$2.3M
Epidemiology of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in PeruR01AI057786 · NIAID · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI BECERRA, MERCEDES C · 2006 to 2008
$1.9M
FIC NIH HHS D43 TW007004FIC NIH HHS D43TW007004NIAID NIH HHS 1R01AI057786-01A2NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI057786NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB001659NIBIB NIH HHS R01-EB001659PHS HHS 1U19A176217-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Developing CountriesDelivery of Health CareLatin AmericaMedical InformaticsTechnology

Identifiers

PMID18547411
PMCPMC2447839

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