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ArticleToxins2016

Priority Actions and Progress to Substantially and Sustainably Reduce the Mortality, Morbidity and Socioeconomic Burden of Tropical Snakebite.

Robert A Harrison, José María Gutiérrez

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Article in Toxins, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 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

2 authors.

Robert A HarrisonAlistair Reid Venom Research Unit, Liverpool School of Tropical, Liverpool L35QA, UK. Robert.Harrison@lstmed.ac.uk.
José María GutiérrezInstituto Clodomiro Picado, Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José 11501-2060, Costa Rica. jose.gutierrez@ucr.ac.cr.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/L01839X/1National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research NC/K500288/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The deliberations and conclusions of a Hinxton Retreat convened in September 2015, entitled "Mechanisms to reverse the public health neglect of snakebite victims" are reported. The participants recommended that the following priority actions be included in strategies to reduce the global impact of snake envenoming: (a) collection of accurate global snakebite incidence, mortality and morbidity data to underpin advocacy efforts and help design public health campaigns; (b) promotion of (i) public education prevention campaigns; (ii) transport systems to improve access to hospitals and (iii) establishment of regional antivenom-efficacy testing facilities to ensure antivenoms' effectiveness and safety;

Indexed as

Snake BitesAntiveninsHealth EducationHealth PromotionHealth Services AccessibilityHumansIncidenceMorbiditySocioeconomic FactorsTropical MedicineAntiveninsantivenomsenvenomingglobal snakebite initiativeneglected tropical diseasepreventionsnakebite

Identifiers

PMID27886134
PMCPMC5198546

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