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ArticleJAMA network open2018

Prevalence of Substandard and Falsified Essential Medicines: Still an Incomplete Picture.

Tim K Mackey

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Article in JAMA network open, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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18citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  15. Substandard, falsified and unregistered medicines in Latin America, 2017-2018.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Tim K MackeyDivision of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Counterfeit DrugsDrugs, EssentialCost of IllnessIncomePrevalenceCounterfeit DrugsDrugs, Essential

Identifiers

PMID30646099

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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