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ArticlePublic health action2017

Performance-based financing contributes to the resilience of health services affected by the Liberian Ebola outbreak.

V G Mussah, L Mapleh, S Ade, A D Harries, P Bhat, F Kateh, B Dahn

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

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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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Barriers and Opportunities for Sustainable Hand Hygiene Interventions in Rural Liberian Hospitals.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

V G MussahPerformance-based Financing Unit, Department of Health Services (DHS), Ministry of Health (MoH), Monrovia, Liberia.
L MaplehFixed Amount Reimbursement Agreement Unit, DHS, MoH, Monrovia, Liberia.
S AdeInternational Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France.
A D HarriesLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
P BhatMinistry of Health, Government of Karnataka, Karnataka, India.
F KatehDHS, MoH, Monrovia, Liberia.
B DahnMoH, Monrovia, Liberia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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childhood immunisationhealth financial incentivesmaternal health indicatorsoperational researchSORT IT

Identifiers

PMID28744447
PMCPMC5515557

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