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SynthesisAsia-Pacific journal of public health2018

Current Smoking Behavior Among Medical Students in Mainland China: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Lu Niu, Ying Liu, Dan Luo, Shuiyuan Xiao

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Synthesis in Asia-Pacific journal of public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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14citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.5field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Lu Niu1 Department of Social Medicine and Health Management, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Ying Liu1 Department of Social Medicine and Health Management, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Dan Luo1 Department of Social Medicine and Health Management, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Shuiyuan Xiao1 Department of Social Medicine and Health Management, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Central South University · CNGuangzhou Medical University · CNWuxi Vocational Institute of Commerce · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of current smoking among medical students in mainland China through a systematic search across 6 electronic databases for English or Chinese studies published before May 25, 2018. A total of 79 studies were included; 26 had a high risk of bias. The overall pooled prevalence of current smoking was 10.93% (7460/68 253; 95% confidence interval = 0.09%, 13.08%, I

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ChinaHumansPrevalenceSmokingStudents, MedicalChinacurrent smokingmedical studentsmeta-analysis

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PMID30256673
PMCPMC6304690
OpenAlexW2892791735

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