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ArticleTravel medicine and infectious disease

Remdesivir as a possible therapeutic option for the COVID-19.

Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq, Ali H Al-Homoud, Ziad A Memish

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Article in Travel medicine and infectious disease. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 159 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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159citing 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

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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

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

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  2. Is there any potential management against COVID-19? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Daru : journal of Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jaffar A Al-TawfiqInfectious Disease Unit, Specialty Internal Medicine and Infection Control Unit, Quality and Patient Safety, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA; Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: jaffar.tawfiq@jhah.com.
Ali H Al-HomoudPharmacy Services Division, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Ziad A MemishDirector Research Center, King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia; Al-Faisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusMiddle East Respiratory Syndrome CoronavirusAdenosine MonophosphateAlanineCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19PandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Adenosine MonophosphateAlanineremdesivir

Identifiers

PMID32145386
PMCPMC7129391

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