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ArticleSexually transmitted infections2017

Advancing STI care in low/middle-income countries: has STI syndromic management reached its use-by date?

Nigel J Garrett, Nuala McGrath, Adrian Mindel

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Article in Sexually transmitted infections, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 5 of them syntheses that 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

39 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines 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

3 authors.

Nigel J GarrettCentre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Nuala McGrathFaculty of Medicine and Faculty of Human, Social and Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Adrian MindelCentre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

Funding

Enhanced STI management to reduce genital inflammation and HIV riskR21AI116759 · NIAID · CENTRE/AIDS PROGRAMME/RES/SOUTH AFRICA · PI GARRETT, NIGEL JOEL, ROMPALO, ANNE M · 2015 to 2016
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NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI116759Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Disease ManagementAnti-Bacterial AgentsDeveloping CountriesHIV InfectionsHumansPoint-of-Care TestingPublic HealthSexually Transmitted DiseasesSouth AfricaAnti-Bacterial AgentsCLINICAL STI CAREDEVELOPING WORLDDIAGNOSISSYNDROMIC MANAGEMENT

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PMID27084840
PMCPMC5505769

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