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ArticleWestern Pacific surveillance and response journal : WPSAR

The influence of the Great East Japan Earthquake on tuberculosis control in Japan.

Akira Shimouchi, Noriko Kobayashi, Yoko Nagata, Minako Urakawa, Nobutatsu Ishkawa

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Article in Western Pacific surveillance and response journal : WPSAR. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact, top 70% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Respiratory impacts of earthquakes.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Akira ShimouchiNishinari District Public Health Office, Osaka City, Japan.; The Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Tokyo, Japan.
Noriko KobayashiThe Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Tokyo, Japan .
Yoko NagataThe Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Tokyo, Japan .
Minako UrakawaThe Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Tokyo, Japan .
Nobutatsu IshkawaThe Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Tokyo, Japan .
Japan Anti Tuberculosis Association · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

DisastersEarthquakesAdultAgedAged, 80 and overDisease NotificationDisease OutbreaksFemaleFukushima Nuclear AccidentHumansJapanMaleMiddle AgedTuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID26798559
PMCPMC4712531
OpenAlexW2419725845

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.