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ArticleAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2018

Prevalence of

Simbarashe Gift Mungazi, Onesai Blessing Chihaka, Godfrey I Muguti

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Article in Annals of medicine and surgery (2012), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Simbarashe Gift MungaziDepartment of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Box A167, Avondale, 263, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Onesai Blessing ChihakaDepartment of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Box A167, Avondale, 263, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Godfrey I MugutiDepartment of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Box A167, Avondale, 263, Harare, Zimbabwe.
University of Zimbabwe · ZW

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMATERIALS AND

methodsA cross sectional study was done at two Central hospitals in Harare, Zimbabwe, with the objective being to estimate the prevalence of

resultsThree hundred patients, 186 males (62%) and 114 females (38%) participated. The prevalence of

conclusion

Indexed as

AsymptomaticHelicobacter pyloriPrevalence

Identifiers

PMID30302246
PMCPMC6174827
OpenAlexW2893010569

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