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ArticleAnnals of internal medicine2020

The Moral Imperative to Include Pregnant Women in Clinical Trials of Interventions for COVID-19.

Isabelle Malhamé, Rohan D'Souza, Matthew P Cheng

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Article in Annals of internal medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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18citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Social Media Misinformation about Pregnancy and COVID-19 Vaccines: A Systematic Review.Medical principles and practice : international journal of the Kuwait University, Health Science Centre · 2024
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  4. Safety of Drugs in Breastfeeding Women With CKD.Kidney international reports · 2025
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  11. Tocilizumab for coronavirus disease 2019 in pregnancy and lactation: a narrative review.Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases · 2022
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  12. A review of remdesivir for COVID-19 in pregnancy and lactation.The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy · 2021
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  13. On the Treatment ofOpen forum infectious diseases · 2021
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  16. Pregnancy and COVID-19: pharmacologic considerations.Ultrasound in obstetrics & gynecology : the official journal of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Isabelle MalhaméMcGill University, McGill University Health Centre, and Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (I.M., M.P.C.).ORCID 0000-0002-9140-8735
Rohan D'SouzaMount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (R.D.).ORCID 0000-0002-4049-2017
Matthew P ChengMcGill University, McGill University Health Centre, and Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (I.M., M.P.C.).

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Pregnant PeopleResearch SubjectsAntiviral AgentsBetacoronavirusClinical Trials as TopicCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19FemaleHumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralPregnancyPregnancy Complications, InfectiousSARS-CoV-2Antiviral Agents

Identifiers

PMID32598164
PMCPMC7384266

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