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ArticleBMJ global health2020

Ethnic and racial disparities in COVID-19-related deaths: counting the trees, hiding the forest.

Sanni Yaya, Helena Yeboah, Carlo Handy Charles, Akaninyene Otu, Ronald Labonte

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Article in BMJ global health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 117 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

117 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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

5 authors.

Sanni YayaSchool of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada sanni.yaya@uottawa.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-4876-6043
Helena YeboahSchool of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Carlo Handy CharlesDepartment of Sociology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Akaninyene OtuDepartment of Infection and Travel Medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom.
Ronald LabonteSchool of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Healthcare DisparitiesRace FactorsCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Health Status DisparitiesHumansMinority GroupsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralUnited StatesCOVID-19epidemiologyhealth disparitieshealth policyhealth systemspublic health

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PMID32513864
PMCPMC7298686

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