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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2019

The timing is right to end snakebite deaths in South Asia.

Ravikar Ralph, Sanjib Kumar Sharma, Mohammad Abul Faiz, Isabela Ribeiro, Suman Rijal, François Chappuis, Ulrich Kuch

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 40 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

40 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

7 authors.

Ravikar RalphDepartment of Internal Medicine, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India ravikar_ralph@yahoo.com.
Sanjib Kumar SharmaDepartment of Internal Medicine, BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Mohammad Abul FaizDev Care Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Isabela RibeiroDynamic Portfolio, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), Geneva, Switzerland.
Suman RijalDNDi, New Delhi, India.
François ChappuisDivision of Tropical and Humanitarian Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland.
Ulrich KuchDepartment of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Social Medicine and Environmental Medicine, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Quality of Health CareAntidotesAntiveninsBangladeshClinical CompetenceEpidemiological MonitoringHealth EducationHumansImmunologic FactorsIndiaNepalPakistanSnake BitesSri LankaTime-to-TreatmentAntidotesAntiveninsImmunologic Factors

Identifiers

PMID30670457
PMCPMC6340368

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