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ArticlePublic health action2017

Increase in acute malnutrition in children following the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in rural Sierra Leone.

M H Kamara, R Najjemba, J van Griensven, D Yorpoi, A S Jimissa, A K Chan, S Mishra

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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 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 22% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 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

7 authors at 5 institutions in 5 countries.

M H KamaraSierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Magburaka, Sierra Leone.
R NajjembaSchool of Public Health, Makerere College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda.
J van GriensvenInstitute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
D YorpoiSierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Magburaka, Sierra Leone.
A S JimissaSierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Magburaka, Sierra Leone.
A K ChanDignitas International, Zomba, Malawi.
S MishraDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
University of Sierra Leone · SLDignitas International · MWInstituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde · BEMakerere University · UGUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

childhealth systems strengtheningoperational researchSORT ITtherapeutic feeding

Identifiers

PMID28744436
PMCPMC5515560
OpenAlexW2738507949

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