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ArticleAnnals of the American Thoracic Society2020

Will Evidence-based Medicine Survive the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Ary Serpa Neto, Carol Hodgson

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Article in Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
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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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The role of evidence-based medicine in the media: misinformation and the COVID-19 lesson.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025
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  2. Review
  3. Future pandemics: how can we be ready?Turkish journal of medical sciences · 2022
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  4. Article
  5. Review
  6. Prioritizing studies of COVID-19 and lessons learned.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ary Serpa NetoAustralian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Carol HodgsonAustralian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralAdultCOVID-19COVID-19 Drug TreatmentEvidence-Based MedicineHumansHydroxychloroquineSARS-CoV-2Hydroxychloroquine

Identifiers

PMID32870059
PMCPMC7462316

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Registered trials

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