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ArticleCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2015

A 35-year-old man with a positive Lyme test result from a private laboratory.

Nisha Andany, Savannah Cardew, Paul E Bunce

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In one paragraph

Article in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 42% of its field
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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Lyme disease: How reliable are serologic results?CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nisha AndanyDepartment of Medicine (Andany, Cardew, Bunce), University of Toronto; Division of General Internal Medicine (Cardew), Women's College Hospital Toronto; Division of Infectious Diseases (Bunce), University Health Network, Toronto, Ont.
Savannah CardewDepartment of Medicine (Andany, Cardew, Bunce), University of Toronto; Division of General Internal Medicine (Cardew), Women's College Hospital Toronto; Division of Infectious Diseases (Bunce), University Health Network, Toronto, Ont.
Paul E BunceDepartment of Medicine (Andany, Cardew, Bunce), University of Toronto; Division of General Internal Medicine (Cardew), Women's College Hospital Toronto; Division of Infectious Diseases (Bunce), University Health Network, Toronto, Ont. paul.bunce@uhn.ca.
Women's College Hospital · CAUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AdultAnti-Bacterial AgentsClinical Laboratory ServicesFalse Positive ReactionsHumansLyme DiseaseMalePrivate SectorAnti-Bacterial Agents

Identifiers

PMID26323702
PMCPMC4627878
OpenAlexW2413985178

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

None linked

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.