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ArticleRevista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health2020

Clinical trials on drug repositioning for COVID-19 treatment.

Sandro G Viveiros Rosa, Wilson C Santos

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Article in Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 191 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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191citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
10.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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

191 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 430 citations in OpenAlex.

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131 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sandro G Viveiros RosaUniversidade Federal Fluminense Universidade Federal Fluminense Brazil Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Wilson C SantosUniversidade Federal Fluminense Universidade Federal Fluminense Brazil Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Universidade Federal Fluminense · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) was informed on December 2019 about a coronavirus pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei province (China). Subsequently, on March 12, 2020, 125,048 cases and 4,614 deaths were reported. Coronavirus is an enveloped RNA virus, from the genus

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clinical trials as topiccoronavirus infectionDrug repositioningpandemicspneumonia, viralvirus diseases

Identifiers

PMID32256547
PMCPMC7105280
OpenAlexW3013953493

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