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ArticleThe Indian journal of medical research

Prophylactic use of hydroxychloroquine among healthcare workers in a case-control study.

Renuka Kunte, Arun Kumar Yadav, Dharamjeet Singh Faujdar, Rajesh Sahu, Dashrath Basannar, Seema Patrikar, Kunal Chatterjee, R M Gupta, Nardeep Naithani

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Article in The Indian journal of medical research. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 53% of its field
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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Authors' response.The Indian journal of medical research
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  2. Hydroxychloroquine/Chloroquine Prophylaxis among Health-care Workers: Was it Really Preventive? - Evidence from a Multicentric Cross-sectional Study.Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Renuka KunteDepartment of Community Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411 040, Maharashtra, India.
Arun Kumar YadavDepartment of Community Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411 040, Maharashtra, India.
Dharamjeet Singh FaujdarDepartment of Community Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411 040, Maharashtra, India.
Rajesh SahuDepartment of Community Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411 040, Maharashtra, India.
Dashrath BasannarDepartment of Community Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411 040, Maharashtra, India.
Seema PatrikarDepartment of Community Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411 040, Maharashtra, India.
Kunal ChatterjeeDepartment of Community Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411 040, Maharashtra, India.
R M GuptaDepartment of Microbiology, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411 040, Maharashtra, India.
Nardeep NaithaniDepartment of Internal Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411 040, Maharashtra, India.
Armed Forces Medical College · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19 Drug TreatmentHydroxychloroquineCase-Control StudiesHealth PersonnelHumansPandemicsSafetySARS-CoV-2TimeHydroxychloroquine

Identifiers

PMID32773428
PMCPMC7853269
OpenAlexW3047057243

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Registered trials

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