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ArticleThe Lancet. Global health2020

COVID-19 preparedness in Malawi: a national facility-based critical care assessment.

Paul D Sonenthal, Jones Masiye, Noel Kasomekera, Regan H Marsh, Emily B Wroe, Kirstin W Scott, Ruoran Li, Megan B Murray, Alice Bukhman, Emilia Connolly and 5 more

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Article in The Lancet. Global health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. SARS-CoV-2 prevalence and immunity: a hospital-based study from Malawi.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2022
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  15. Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Related to COVID-19 Among Malawi Adults: A Community-Based Survey.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Paul D SonenthalDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Partners In Health, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: psonenthal@bwh.harvard.edu.
Jones MasiyeMinistry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi.
Noel KasomekeraMinistry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi; Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo/Partners In Health, Neno, Malawi.
Regan H MarshDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Partners In Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Emily B WroeDivision of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo/Partners In Health, Neno, Malawi.
Kirstin W ScottHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Ruoran LiHarvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Boston, MA, USA.
Megan B MurrayDepartment of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Alice BukhmanDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Emilia ConnollyAbwenzi Pa Za Umoyo/Partners In Health, Neno, Malawi; Division of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA; Division of Hospital Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Tadala MinyaliwaAbwenzi Pa Za Umoyo/Partners In Health, Neno, Malawi.
Martha KateteAbwenzi Pa Za Umoyo/Partners In Health, Neno, Malawi.
Grace BandaQueen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Adult Emergency and Trauma Center, Blantyre, Malawi.
Mulinda NyirendaQueen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Adult Emergency and Trauma Center, Blantyre, Malawi; University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi.
Shada A RouhaniDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Partners In Health, Boston, MA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Health FacilitiesCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Critical CareHumansMalawiPandemicsPneumonia, Viral

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PMID32464111
PMCPMC7247792

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