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ArticleLancet (London, England)2020

Interferon beta-1b for COVID-19.

Sarah Shalhoub

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In one paragraph

Article in Lancet (London, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
47citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

47 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Randomized controlled open label trial on the use of favipiravir combined with inhaled interferon beta-1b in hospitalized patients with moderate to severe COVID-19 pneumonia.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2021
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  10. Interferon resistance of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  15. Interferon Resistance of Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variants.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sarah ShalhoubSchulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, ON N6A 5C1, Canada. Electronic address: sarah.shalhoub@lhsc.on.ca.
Western University · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsMultiple SclerosisRitonavirAdjuvants, ImmunologicBetacoronavirusCOVID-19COVID-19 Drug TreatmentHumansInterferon beta-1bLopinavirPandemicsPneumonia, ViralRibavirinSARS-CoV-2Adjuvants, ImmunologicInterferon beta-1bLopinavirRibavirinRitonavir

Identifiers

PMID32401712
PMCPMC7211497
OpenAlexW3021721432

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
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Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.