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ArticleJournal of infection and public health

The search for therapeutic options for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).

Yaseen M Arabi, Hanan H Balkhy, Frederick G Hayden, David S Hui, Maria D Van Kerkhove, Robert A Fowler

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Article in Journal of infection and public health. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Yaseen M ArabiIntensive Care Department, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: arabi@ngha.med.sa.
Hanan H BalkhyKing Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Infection Prevention and Control Department, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Frederick G HaydenDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
David S HuiDepartment of Medicine & Therapeutics, Stanley Ho Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong.
Maria D Van KerkhoveCenter for Global Health, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
Robert A FowlerInstitute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Department of Critical Care Medicine and Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Biomedical ResearchCoronavirus InfectionsHumans

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PMID27050470
PMCPMC7129901

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