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ArticleGMS hygiene and infection control2016

Predictors of low prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection among Egyptian health care workers at intensive care and bronchoscopy units.

Enas Mamdouh Hefzy, Ahmed Ashraf Wegdan, Radwa Ahmed Elhefny, Samar Hassan Nasser

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Article in GMS hygiene and infection control, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Enas Mamdouh HefzyDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt.
Ahmed Ashraf WegdanDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt.
Radwa Ahmed ElhefnyDepartment of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt.
Samar Hassan NasserFayoum General Hospital, Ministry of Health, Fayoum, Egypt.
Fayoum University · EG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

health care workersinfection controllatent tuberculosisQuantiFERON-TB Gold testtuberculin skin test

Identifiers

PMID27777875
PMCPMC5062057
OpenAlexW2581494597

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