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ReviewCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2009

Modelling an influenza pandemic: A guide for the perplexed.

Pandemic Influenza Outbreak Research Modelling Team (Pan-InfORM), David Fisman

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Review in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Mathematical modelling for pandemic preparedness in Canada: Learning from COVID-19.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2024
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  8. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2020
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  9. Mathematical modelling of COVID-19 transmission and mitigation strategies in the population of Ontario, Canada.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2020
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  10. The DAGs of war.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  17. Unraveling R0: considerations for public health applications.American journal of public health · 2014
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  18. The epidemiology of MERS-CoV.The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2014
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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

2 authors.

Pandemic Influenza Outbreak Research Modelling Team (Pan-InfORM)Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, Epidemiology and Surveillance, Toronto, ON. david.fisman@oahpp.ca
David Fisman

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Models, TheoreticalDisease OutbreaksDisease Transmission, InfectiousGlobal HealthHealth PlanningHealth PolicyHumansInfluenza, Human

Identifiers

PMID19620267
PMCPMC2717691

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