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SynthesisFrontiers in medicine2020

Efficacy and Safety of Anti-malarial Drugs (Chloroquine and Hydroxy-Chloroquine) in Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Rashmi Ranjan Das, Nishant Jaiswal, Nishanth Dev, Nikita Jaiswal, Sushree Samiksha Naik, Jhuma Sankar

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Synthesis in Frontiers in medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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29citing papers in PubMed, 6 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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Efficacy and safety of hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine against SARS-CoV-2 infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of infection and chemotherapy : official journal of the Japan Society of Chemotherapy · 2021
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  8. The strategies and advances of mRNA translation booster.Asian journal of pharmaceutical sciences · 2025
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  10. The Catalysts-Based Synthetic Approaches to Quinolines: A Review.Medicinal chemistry (Shariqah (United Arab Emirates)) · 2024
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  17. Oxidation of chloroquine drug by ferrate: Kinetics, reaction mechanism and antibacterial activity.Chemical engineering journal (Lausanne, Switzerland : 1996) · 2022
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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

6 authors.

Rashmi Ranjan DasDepartment of Pediatrics, AIIMS Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, India.
Nishant JaiswalEvidence Based Health Informatics Unit, Department of Telemedicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.
Nishanth DevDepartment of Medicine, VMMC, Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Nikita JaiswalDepartment of Microbiology, MM Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, MMU (Deemed to be University), Ambala, India.
Sushree Samiksha NaikDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Capital Hospital, Bhubaneswar, India.
Jhuma SankarDepartment of Pediatrics, AIIMS New Delhi, New Delhi, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

aminoquinolineazithromycinChloroquineCOVID-19evidence-based medicineHydroxychloroquinemortalitySARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32850924
PMCPMC7403461

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