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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2020

Going viral: doctors must tackle fake news in the covid-19 pandemic.

Cathal O'Connor, Michelle Murphy

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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48citing 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

48 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.

Cathal O'ConnorDepartment of Dermatology, South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital, Cork T12 X23H, Republic of Ireland.
Michelle MurphyDepartment of Dermatology, South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital, Cork T12 X23H, Republic of Ireland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusDeceptionTruth DisclosureCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansMass MediaPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Science

Identifiers

PMID32332066

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