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ArticleBMJ global health2018

Unpicking the Gordian knot: a systems approach to traumatic brain injury care in low-income and middle-income countries.

Tom Bashford, P John Clarkson, David K Menon, Peter J A Hutchinson

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Article in BMJ global health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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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

15 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

4 authors.

Tom BashfordNIHR Global Health Research Group for Neurotrauma, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0228-9779
P John ClarksonNIHR Global Health Research Group for Neurotrauma, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
David K MenonNIHR Global Health Research Group for Neurotrauma, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Peter J A HutchinsonNIHR Global Health Research Group for Neurotrauma, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Funding

Department of Health 12/35/57Department of Health HTA/13/15/02Department of Health II-C5-0715-20005Department of Health NIHR-RP-R3-12-013Medical Research Council G0502030Medical Research Council G0600986Medical Research Council G0601025Medical Research Council G1002277Medical Research Council G9439390
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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health services researchhealth systemsneurologysurgerytraumatology

Identifiers

PMID29607105
PMCPMC5873538

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