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ArticleLancet (London, England)2016

Refugees: towards better access to health-care services.

Etienne V Langlois, Andy Haines, Göran Tomson, Abdul Ghaffar

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Article in Lancet (London, England), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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57citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

57 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

4 authors.

Etienne V LangloisAlliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization, Geneva 1211, Switzerland. Electronic address: langloise@who.int.
Andy HainesDepartments of Social and Environmental Health Research and of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Göran TomsonDepartment of Learning, Informatics, Management, and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Abdul GhaffarAlliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization, Geneva 1211, Switzerland.

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Health Services AccessibilityRefugeesHealth Services Needs and DemandHealth StatusHumansVulnerable Populations

Identifiers

PMID26842434
PMCPMC5603273

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Registered trials

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