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ArticleCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2020

Excluding pregnancy from COVID-19 trials: Protection from harm or the harm of protection?

Ann Kinga Malinowski, John Snelgrove, Nan Okun

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Article in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Expecto Patronum! Leveraging the Positive Force of COVID-19 Vaccines for Pregnant and Lactating Individuals.Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology Canada : JOGC = Journal d'obstetrique et gynecologie du Canada : JOGC · 2021
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  5. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2021
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  7. Prone positioning for patients with hypoxic respiratory failure related to COVID-19.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ann Kinga MalinowskiMaternal-fetal medicine specialist, Mount Sinai Hospital (Sinai Health System), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
John SnelgroveMaternal-fetal medicine physician, Mount Sinai Hospital (Sinai Health System), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
Nan OkunMaternal-fetal medicine physician, Mount Sinai Hospital (Sinai Health System), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusPneumonia, ViralCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19FemaleHumansPandemicsPregnancySARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32575055
PMCPMC7867215

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Registered trials

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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.