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ArticleThe Lancet. Infectious diseases2020

The uncertainty of tuberculosis diagnosis.

Sumona Datta, Carlton A Evans

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Article in The Lancet. Infectious diseases, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing 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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sumona DattaLiverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK; Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK; Innovation For Health And Development, Laboratory of Research and Development, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru; Innovación Por la Salud Y Desarrollo, Asociación Benéfica PRISMA, Lima, Peru.
Carlton A EvansDepartment of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK; Innovation For Health And Development, Laboratory of Research and Development, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru; Innovación Por la Salud Y Desarrollo, Asociación Benéfica PRISMA, Lima, Peru. Electronic address: carlton.evans@ifhad.org.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/K007467/1Medical Research Council MR/T040165/1Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 057434/Z/99/ZWellcome Trust 070005/Z/02/ZWellcome Trust 078340/Z/05/ZWellcome Trust 105788/Z/14/ZWellcome Trust 201251/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

TuberculosisTuberculosis, PulmonaryAdultAnti-Bacterial AgentsHumansUncertaintyAnti-Bacterial Agents

Identifiers

PMID32437698
PMCPMC7234790

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