Analysis of the RIMDAMAL trial.

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.

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.

Who cites it

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

1. Ivermectin treatment in humans for reducing malaria transmission.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021
   Pooled it
2. Ivermectin: A Multifaceted Drug With a Potential Beyond Anti-parasitic Therapy.Cureus · 2024
   Review
3. Protocol for a cluster randomised placebo-controlled trial of adjunctive ivermectin mass drug administration for malaria control on the Bijagós Archipelago of Guinea-Bissau: the MATAMAL trial.BMJ open · 2023
   Article
4. Proof-of-concept study for a long-acting formulation of ivermectin injected in cattle as a complementary malaria vector control tool.Parasites & vectors · 2023
   Article
5. Broadening the range of use cases for ivermectin - a review of the evidence.Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2022
   Review
6. Design and analysis of a 2-year parallel follow-up of repeated ivermectin mass drug administrations for control of malaria: Small sample considerations for cluster-randomized trials with count data.Clinical trials (London, England) · 2021
   Article
7. The use of islands and cluster-randomized trials to investigate vector control interventions: a case study on the Bijagós archipelago, Guinea-Bissau.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
   Review
8. A Roadmap for the Development of Ivermectin as a Complementary Malaria Vector Control Tool.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020
   Article

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Efficacy and risk of harms of repeat ivermectin mass drug administrations for control of malaria (RIMDAMAL): a cluster-randomised trial.2019

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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