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ReviewPLoS neglected tropical diseases2015

Cochrane Reviews on Deworming and the Right to a Healthy, Worm-Free Life.

Nilanthi de Silva, Be-Nazir Ahmed, Martin Casapia, H J de Silva, John Gyapong, Mwelecele Malecela, A Pathmeswaran

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Review in PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 4 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Anthelmintic drugs for treating ascariasis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020
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  9. Effective drug combination forScience advances · 2017
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  12. Don't Shoot the Messenger.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Nilanthi de SilvaDepartment of Parasitology, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka.
Be-Nazir AhmedDepartment of Microbiology, National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Martin CasapiaAsociacion Civil Selva Amazónica, Iquitos, Perú
H J de SilvaPostgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
John GyapongUniversity of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
Mwelecele MalecelaNational Institute for Medical Research, Dar es Salaam, Republic of Tanzania.
A PathmeswaranDepartment of Public Health, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AnthelminticsDrug TherapyHuman RightsHumansIntestinal Diseases, ParasiticAnthelmintics

Identifiers

PMID26492484
PMCPMC4619607

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