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ArticleEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2018

Impact of infectious diseases on population health using incidence-based disability-adjusted life years (DALYs): results from the Burden of Communicable Diseases in Europe study, European Union and European Economic Area countries, 2009 to 2013.

Alessandro Cassini, Edoardo Colzani, Alessandro Pini, Marie-Josee J Mangen, Dietrich Plass, Scott A McDonald, Guido Maringhini, Alies van Lier, Juanita A Haagsma, Arie H Havelaar and 3 more

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Article in Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 169 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
169citing papers in PubMed, 9 pooled it
63.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

169 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 309 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

13 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

Alessandro CassiniEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Edoardo ColzaniEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Alessandro PiniEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Marie-Josee J MangenJulius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Dietrich PlassSection Exposure Assessment and Environmental Health Indicators, German Environment Agency, Berlin, Germany.
Scott A McDonaldCentre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands.
Guido MaringhiniEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Alies van LierCentre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands.
Juanita A HaagsmaDepartment of Public Health, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Arie H HavelaarCentre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands.
Piotr KramarzEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Mirjam E KretzschmarJulius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
BCoDE consortiumMirjam E Kretzschmar (mirjam.kretzschmar@rivm.nl).
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control · SENational Institute for Public Health and the Environment · NLErasmus MC · NLGerman Environment Agency · DEUniversity Medical Center Utrecht · NLUniversity of Florida · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background and aimsThe Burden of Communicable Diseases in Europe (BCoDE) study aimed to calculate disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 31 selected diseases in the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA).

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Cost of IllnessPopulation HealthQuality-Adjusted Life YearsAdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overChildChild, PreschoolCommunicable DiseasesEuropeEuropean UnionFemaleHumansIncidenceInfantburden of communicable diseases in Europedisability-adjusted life yearsHIV/AIDS, tuberculosisinfectious disease surveillanceinfluenzaprioritisation in public healthpublic health policy

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PMID29692315
PMCPMC5915974
OpenAlexW2802586033

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