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ArticleThe Lancet. Infectious diseases2018

Incarceration, drug use, and infectious diseases: a syndemic still not addressed.

Nickolas Zaller, Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein

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Article in The Lancet. Infectious diseases, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Nickolas ZallerUniversity of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72206, USA. Electronic address: ndzaller@uams.edu.
Lauren Brinkley-RubinsteinDepartment of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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HepacivirusSubstance-Related DisordersHIVHumansRisk-TakingSyndemic

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