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ArticleTravel medicine and infectious disease

From Hajj services to Mass Gathering Medicine: Saudi Arabia formalizes a novel discipline.

Qanta A Ahmed, Shahul Ebrahim, Ziad A Memish

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Article in Travel medicine and infectious disease. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

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

  1. Pooled it
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  5. Coronavirus and co-infections: A Saudi Arabian perspective.Saudi journal of biological sciences · 2023
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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

3 authors.

Qanta A AhmedDivision of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Winthrop University Hospital, Associate Professor of Medicine. State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook, New York, USA. Electronic address: Qanta.Ahmed@gmail.com.
Shahul EbrahimUniversity of Bamako, Mali. Electronic address: ebrahimsh2@gmail.com.
Ziad A MemishInfectious Diseases Division, Department of Medicine and Research Department, Prince Mohammed Bin Abdulaziz Hospital, Ministry of Health & College of Medicine Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, USA. Electronic address: Zmemish@yahoo.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

IslamTravelTravel MedicineCrowdingHumansPublic HealthSaudi ArabiaHajjMass gatheringsSaudi ArabiaWHO

Identifiers

PMID30012471
PMCPMC7128817

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