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United States Notifications of Travelers from Ebola-Affected Countries.

Katrin S Kohl, Rossanne Philen, Ray R Arthur, Mary Dott, Rachel Nonkin Avchen, Kate M Shaw, Maleeka J Glover, W Randolph Daley

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Article in Health security. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 18% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Katrin S Kohl
Rossanne Philen
Ray R Arthur
Mary Dott
Rachel Nonkin Avchen
Kate M Shaw
Maleeka J Glover
W Randolph Daley
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · US

Funding

Intramural CDC HHS CC999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The International Health Regulations (IHR), an international law under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO), mandates that countries notify other countries of "travelers under public health observation." Between November 10, 2014, and July 12, 2015, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made 2,374 notifications to the National IHR Focal Points in 114 foreign countries of travelers who were monitored by US health departments because they had been to an Ebola-affected country in West Africa. Given that countries have preidentified focal points as points of contacts for sharing of public health information, notifications could be made by CDC to a trusted public health recipient in another country within 24 hours of receipt of the traveler's information from a US health department. The majority of US health departments used this process, offered by CDC, to notify other countries of travelers intending to leave the United States while being monitored in their jurisdiction.

Indexed as

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.Public Health SurveillanceTravelAfrica, WesternEpidemiological MonitoringHemorrhagic Fever, EbolaHumansInternational CooperationInternationalitySentinel SurveillanceUnited StatesWorld Health OrganizationEbola virus diseaseInternational Health RegulationsInternational travelers

Identifiers

PMID28636446
PMCPMC5572187
OpenAlexW2686839113

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