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ArticlePostgraduate medical journal2020

Use of specific antimicrobials for COVID-19: should we prescribe them now or wait for more evidence?

Abdullah AlAkhras, Ahmed Husein AlMessabi, Hala Abuzeid, Saye Khoo, Emmanuel Fru Nsutebu

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Article in Postgraduate medical journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 49% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Abdullah AlAkhrasInternal Medicine Department, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.ORCID 0000-0002-6554-6034
Ahmed Husein AlMessabiInfectious Disease Division, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Hala AbuzeidCritical Care Department, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Saye KhooFaculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Emmanuel Fru NsutebuInfectious Disease Division, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates nsutebufru@hotmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-4750-1235
Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City · AEUniversity of Liverpool · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Anti-Infective AgentsRitonavirAdultBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19COVID-19 Drug TreatmentHumansLopinavirPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Anti-Infective AgentsLopinavirRitonavirinfectious diseasestherapeutics

Identifiers

PMID32439730
PMCPMC10016879
OpenAlexW3028015367

What OpenQuestion holds

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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.