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ArticleThe Lancet. Infectious diseases2015

Drug assessment in the Ebola virus disease epidemic in west Africa.

Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Peter Horby, Johan van Griensven, France Mentre, Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Jean Marie Denis Malvy, Jake Dunning, Daouda Sissoko, Jean-Francois Delfraissy, Yves Levy

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Article in The Lancet. Infectious diseases, 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.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 25% 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, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 7 institutions in 5 countries.

Yazdan YazdanpanahINSERM, IAME, UMR 1137, UFR de Médecine, 75018 Paris, France; Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France; Infectious Diseases Department, Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris, France. Electronic address: yazdan.yazdanpanah@aphp.fr.
Peter HorbyUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Johan van GriensvenInstitute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
France MentreINSERM, IAME, UMR 1137, UFR de Médecine, 75018 Paris, France; Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France; Infectious Diseases Department, Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris, France.
Vinh-Kim NguyenCollège d'études Mondiales, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France; Ecole de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada; University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Jean Marie Denis MalvyINSERM 897, Tropical Medicine Branch, Bordeaux, France; Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, CHU de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
Jake DunningUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Daouda SissokoINSERM 897, Tropical Medicine Branch, Bordeaux, France; Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, CHU de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
Jean-Francois DelfraissyINSERM, Paris, France.
Yves LevyINSERM, Paris, France.
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux · FRInserm · FRUniversity of Oxford · GBDélégation Paris 7 · FRFondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme · FRInstituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde · BEUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · FR

Funding

Wellcome Trust 106491
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Disease OutbreaksBiomedical ResearchHemorrhagic Fever, EbolaHumans

Identifiers

PMID26531030
PMCPMC5856333
OpenAlexW2134310882

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