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ArticleLancet (London, England)2018

Laboratory medicine in low-income and middle-income countries: progress and challenges.

John N Nkengasong, Katy Yao, Philip Onyebujoh

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Article in Lancet (London, England), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers, 3 of them syntheses 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

66 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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6 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

John N NkengasongAfrica Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, African Union, Addis Ababa W21K19, Ethiopia. Electronic address: nkengasongj@africa-union.org.
Katy YaoUS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Philip OnyebujohAfrica Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, African Union, Addis Ababa W21K19, Ethiopia.

Funding

Intramural CDC HHS CC999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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IncomePovertyDeveloping Countries

Identifiers

PMID29550031
PMCPMC5962422

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