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ArticleCanadian respiratory journal2016

Is Universal Screening Necessary? Incidence of Tuberculosis among Tibetan Refugees Arriving in Calgary, Alberta.

Rachel Lim, Julie Jarand, Stephen K Field, Dina Fisher

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Article in Canadian respiratory journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 36% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Number needed to screen for TB in clinical, structural or occupational risk groups.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2022
    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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rachel LimCumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-4449-4447
Julie JarandCumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Stephen K FieldCumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Dina FisherCumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
University of Calgary · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AdolescentAdultAge FactorsAlbertaAntitubercular AgentsCohort StudiesFemaleHumansIncidenceInterferon-gamma Release TestsLatent TuberculosisLungMaleMass ScreeningRadiography, ThoracicRefugeesAntitubercular Agents

Identifiers

PMID28127230
PMCPMC5227153
OpenAlexW2563180105

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.