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ArticleLancet (London, England)2015

Effectiveness of screening for Ebola at airports.

Jonathan M Read, Peter J Diggle, James Chirombo, Tom Solomon, Matthew Baylis

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Article in Lancet (London, England), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 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

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

  1. The use and reporting of airline passenger data for infectious disease modelling: a systematic review.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2019
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  2. The Risk from Reopening International Travel During a Disease X Pandemic: A Case Study of SARS-CoV-2.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2026
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  15. Key data for outbreak evaluation: building on the Ebola experience.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jonathan M ReadInstitute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7BE, UK; Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Peter J DiggleInstitute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7BE, UK; Division of Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK; Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
James ChiromboInstitute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7BE, UK.
Tom SolomonInstitute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7BE, UK; Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK; Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. Electronic address: tsolomon@liv.ac.uk.
Matthew BaylisInstitute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7BE, UK; Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Disease OutbreaksModels, StatisticalAir TravelEbolavirusHemorrhagic Fever, EbolaHumansMass Screening

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.