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Towards Effective Management Protocols: A Transnational Review of the State-of-the-Art of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates.

Maryam Ehtesham, Talal Almas, Absam Akbar, Muhammad Ali Niaz, Noreen Zia

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Review in Cureus, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Maryam EhteshamInternal Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, IRL.
Talal AlmasInternal Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, IRL.
Absam AkbarInternal Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, PAK.
Muhammad Ali NiazSurgery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, IRL.
Noreen ZiaInternal Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, PAK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has proliferated rapidly in Pakistan, adversely affecting every province. The grave repercussions that the pandemic has elicited in Pakistan have evoked a dire need for drastic measures to be employed at both the governmental and provincial levels. Due to the inequitable appropriation of healthcare resources with respect to the various provinces, however, a stark contrast in terms of morbidity and mortality persists. Furthermore, considering that Pakistani citizens constitute a noteworthy proportion of expatriates residing in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the close proximity of the two countries, due consideration of the situation in the UAE is also warranted. We present a transnational review to delineate the current state-of-the-art in Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates and evaluate pragmatic management protocols that remain at the epicenter of a national healthcare conundrum.

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covid-19managementpakistanuae

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PMID32754394
PMCPMC7386061

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