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ArticlePrehospital and disaster medicine2020

50 States or 50 Countries: What Did We Miss and What Do We Do Now?

Frederick M Burkle, Asha V Devereaux

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Article in Prehospital and disaster medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing 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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Does the Prosperity of a Country Play a Role in COVID-19 Outcomes?Disaster medicine and public health preparedness · 2022
    Observational
  3. Article
  4. Review
  5. Article
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.

Frederick M BurkleProfessor (Ret.), Senior Fellow & Scientist, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University & T.H. Chan School of Public Health, CambridgeMA Global Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DCUSA Editor for Humanitarian Affairs, Prehospital & Disaster Medicine.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5110-7284
Asha V DevereauxPulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Coronado, CaliforniaUSA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There have been multiple inconsistencies in the manner the COVID-19 pandemic has been investigated and managed by countries. Population-based management (PBM) has been inconsistent, yet serves as a necessary first step in managing public health crises. Unfortunately, these have dominated the landscape within the United States and continue as of this writing. Political and economic influences have greatly influenced major public health management and control decisions. Responsibility for global public health crises and modeling for management are the responsibility of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Health Regulations Treaty (IHR). This review calls upon both to reassess their roles and responsibilities that must be markedly improved and better replicated world-wide in order to optimize the global public health protections and its PBM."Ask a big enough question, and you need more than one discipline to answer it."Liz Lerman, MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, Choreographer, Modern Dance legend, and 2011 Artist-in Residence, Harvard Music Department.

Indexed as

Global HealthPublic Health AdministrationBetacoronavirusCommunicable Disease ControlCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Disease OutbreaksHumansInternational Health RegulationsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2United StatesWorld Health OrganizationCenters for Disease Control and Preventioncoronavirusglobal public healthpandemicspopulation-based managementWorld Health Organization

Identifiers

PMID32438938
PMCPMC7261962

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