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ArticleTravel medicine and infectious disease

COVID-19 treatment in sub-Saharan Africa: If the best is not available, the available becomes the best.

Jan H Dubbink, Tiago Martins Branco, Kelfala Bb Kamara, James S Bangura, Erik Wehrens, Abdul M Falama, Abraham Goorhuis, Peter B Jørgensen, Stephen S Sevalie, Thomas Hanscheid and 1 more

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Article in Travel medicine and infectious disease. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

11 authors.

Jan H DubbinkMasanga Hospital, Masanga, Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone; Masanga Medical Research Unit (MMRU), Masanga, Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone; Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam Infection & Immunity, Amsterdam Public Health, University of Amsterdam, Location AMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1100 DD Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Tiago Martins BrancoMasanga Hospital, Masanga, Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone; Masanga Medical Research Unit (MMRU), Masanga, Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone.
Kelfala Bb KamaraMasanga Hospital, Masanga, Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone; Masanga Medical Research Unit (MMRU), Masanga, Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone.
James S BanguraMasanga Hospital, Masanga, Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone; Masanga Medical Research Unit (MMRU), Masanga, Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone.
Erik WehrensMasanga Hospital, Masanga, Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone; Masanga Medical Research Unit (MMRU), Masanga, Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone; Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam Infection & Immunity, Amsterdam Public Health, University of Amsterdam, Location AMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1100 DD Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Capacare, Trondheim, Norway, and Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Abdul M FalamaDistrict Health Medical Team, District Medical Office, Magburaka, Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone.
Abraham GoorhuisMasanga Medical Research Unit (MMRU), Masanga, Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone; Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam Infection & Immunity, Amsterdam Public Health, University of Amsterdam, Location AMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1100 DD Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Peter B JørgensenMasanga Hospital, Masanga, Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone; Masanga Medical Research Unit (MMRU), Masanga, Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone.
Stephen S SevalieJoint Medical Unit, 34 Military Hospital, Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces, Free Town, Sierra Leone; National COVID-19 Emergency Response Team, National Emergency Operations Centre, Free Town, Sierra Leone.
Thomas HanscheidFaculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
Martin Peter GrobuschMasanga Medical Research Unit (MMRU), Masanga, Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone; Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam Infection & Immunity, Amsterdam Public Health, University of Amsterdam, Location AMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1100 DD Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Electronic address: m.p.grobusch@amsterdamumc.nl.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Africa South of the SaharaBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Developing CountriesHealth FacilitiesHealth PersonnelHumansPandemicsPatient CarePersonal Protective EquipmentPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Sierra LeoneCase managementCOVID-19LMICSARS-CoV-2Sierra LeoneTreatment centers

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PMID32927051
PMCPMC7485546

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