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ArticleClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2018

Regulatory and Operational Complexities of Conducting a Clinical Treatment Trial During an Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic.

Amanda M Rojek, Jake Dunning, Aleksandra Leliogdowicz, Lyndsey Castle, Mary Van Lieshout, Gail Carson, Foday Sahr, Piero Olliaro, Peter W Horby

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Article in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Amanda M RojekEpidemic Diseases Research Group Oxford (ERGO), Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Jake DunningEpidemic Diseases Research Group Oxford (ERGO), Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Aleksandra LeliogdowiczEpidemic Diseases Research Group Oxford (ERGO), Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Lyndsey CastleEpidemic Diseases Research Group Oxford (ERGO), Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Mary Van LieshoutGOAL Global, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland.
Gail CarsonInternational Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Foday SahrMilitary 34 Hospital, Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces and College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, Freetown.
Piero OlliaroCentre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Peter W HorbyEpidemic Diseases Research Group Oxford (ERGO), Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

Funding

Wellcome TrustWorld Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The first phase II and III clinical trials for Ebola virus disease treatments were conducted during the West Africa outbreak. We report the operational practicalities of conducting a phase II clinical trial of TKM-130803 to international standards during this outbreak.

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Clinical Trials, Phase II as TopicEpidemicsAfrica, WesternBiomedical ResearchData CollectionDisease OutbreaksHemorrhagic Fever, EbolaHumansInformed ConsentMonitoring, PhysiologicResearch DesignRNA, Small InterferingSierra LeoneRNA, Small InterferingTKM-130803

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PMID29206908
PMCPMC5905621

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