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ArticleFrontiers in public health2020

The Economic Impacts of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in an Australian Cohort.

Shara Close, Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik, Joshua Byrnes, Peter Smith, Son Nghiem, Don Staines

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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21citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Shara CloseMenzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT, Australia.
Sonya Marshall-GradisnikNational Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Diseases, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia.
Joshua ByrnesCentre for Applied Health Economics, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia.
Peter SmithNational Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Diseases, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia.
Son NghiemCentre for Applied Health Economics, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia.
Don StainesNational Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Diseases, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia.
Griffith University · AUMenzies School of Health Research · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Fatigue Syndrome, ChronicAustraliaCanadaCohort StudiesHumansSurveys and Questionnaireschronic fatigue syndromediagnosticseconomic impacthealth care service utilizationhealth economicsmyalgic encephalomyelitisout of pocket costpublic health

Identifiers

PMID32974259
PMCPMC7472917
OpenAlexW3081274363

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Registered trials

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