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ArticleClinical and vaccine immunology : CVI2015

Better method for evaluating a new laboratory test for syphilis.

Qiao Zhang, Ya-Feng Zhang, Fu-Yi Chen, Long Liu, Tian-Ci Yang, Jian-Jun Niu, Li-Li Liu

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Article in Clinical and vaccine immunology : CVI, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Qiao ZhangZhongshan Hospital, Medical College of Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.
Ya-Feng ZhangZhongshan Hospital, Medical College of Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.
Fu-Yi ChenDepartment of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA.
Long LiuDepartment of Chemistry and Biology, College of Science, National University of Defense and Technology, Changsha, China.
Tian-Ci YangZhongshan Hospital, Medical College of Xiamen University, Xiamen, China Shenzhen Research Institute of Xiamen University, Shenzhen, China Xiamen Zhongshan Hospital, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xiamen, China.
Jian-Jun NiuZhongshan Hospital, Medical College of Xiamen University, Xiamen, China niujianjun211@xmu.edu.cn liulili@xmu.edu.cn.
Li-Li LiuZhongshan Hospital, Medical College of Xiamen University, Xiamen, China Xiamen Zhongshan Hospital, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xiamen, China niujianjun211@xmu.edu.cn liulili@xmu.edu.cn.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Antibodies, BacterialDiagnostic Tests, RoutineHumansSyphilisTreponema pallidumAntibodies, Bacterial

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PMID25921468
PMCPMC4412942

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