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ArticleThe Lancet. Digital health2020

Crowdsourcing data to mitigate epidemics.

Gabriel M Leung, Kathy Leung

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Article in The Lancet. Digital health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
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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

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Syndromic surveillance performance in Canada throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, March 1, 2020 to March 4, 2023.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2023
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  5. Crowdsourced disease surveillance success story: The FluWatchers program.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Gabriel M LeungWHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Admistrative Region, China. Electronic address: gmleung@hku.hk.
Kathy LeungWHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Admistrative Region, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19CrowdsourcingDisease OutbreaksHumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32296776
PMCPMC7158995

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