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ArticleBMJ global health2019

Using unannounced standardised patients to obtain data on quality of care in low-income and middle-income countries: key challenges and opportunities.

Virginia Wiseman, Mylene Lagarde, Roxanne Kovacs, Luh Putu Lila Wulandari, Timothy Powell-Jackson, Jessica King, Catherine Goodman, Kara Hanson, Rosalind Miller, Dong Xu and 7 more

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Article in BMJ global health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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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

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Virginia WisemanKirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-7911-0741
Mylene LagardeDepartment of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Roxanne KovacsDepartment of Global Health and Development, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Luh Putu Lila WulandariKirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Timothy Powell-JacksonDepartment of Global Health and Development, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Jessica KingDepartment of Global Health and Development, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Catherine GoodmanDepartment of Global Health and Development, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Kara HansonDepartment of Global Health and Development, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Rosalind MillerDepartment of Global Health and Development, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Dong XuSun Yat-sen Global Health Institute, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Marco LiveraniDepartment of Global Health and Development, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0829-291X
Shunmay YeungDepartment of Clinical Research, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Dumisani HompasheDepartment of Economics, University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa.
Mishal KhanDepartment of Global Health and Development, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Ronelle BurgerDepartment of Economics, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa.
Carmen S ChristianDepartment of Economics, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
Duane BlaauwCentre for Health Policy, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/N015061/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Health economicsHealth services researchHealth systems evaluation

Identifiers

PMID31565422
PMCPMC6747897

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