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ArticleSexually transmitted diseases2020

Words Matter: Putting an End to "Unsafe" and "Risky" Sex.

Julia L Marcus, Jonathan M Snowden

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Article in Sexually transmitted diseases, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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27citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

27 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.

Julia L MarcusFrom the Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA.
Jonathan M SnowdenSchool of Public Health, Oregon Health and Science University─Portland State University, Portland, OR.

Funding

Optimizing Care for HIV/HCV-Coinfected Patients in the New HCV Treatment EraK01AI122853 · NIAID · KAISER FOUNDATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI MARCUS, JULIA L. · 2016 to 2020
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NIAID NIH HHS K01 AI122853
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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LanguageHealth CommunicationHumansUnsafe Sex

Identifiers

PMID31517770
PMCPMC6953392

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.