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ArticlePublic health action2017

Enrolment and retention of people who inject drugs in the Needle & Syringe Exchange Programme in Malaysia.

S Chandrasekaran, N T T Kyaw, A D Harries, I A Yee, P Ellan, T Kurusamy, N Yusoff, G Mburu, W M Z W Mohammad, A Suleiman

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Article in Public health action, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 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

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

2 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

10 authors.

S ChandrasekaranMalaysian AIDS Council, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
N T T KyawInternational Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Myanmar Country Office, Mandalay, Myanmar.
A D HarriesInternational Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France.
I A YeeMalaysian AIDS Council, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
P EllanMalaysian AIDS Council, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
T KurusamyMalaysian AIDS Council, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
N YusoffMalaysian AIDS Council, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
G MburuDepartment of Health Research, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
W M Z W MohammadSchool of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
A SuleimanMinistry of Health Malaysia, Putrajaya, Malaysia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID28695090
PMCPMC5493098

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