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ArticleThe Lancet. Infectious diseases2021

The place for remdesivir in COVID-19 treatment.

Barnaby Young, Thuan Tong Tan, Yee Sin Leo

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Article in The Lancet. Infectious diseases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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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

61 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Barnaby YoungNational Centre for Infectious Diseases, Singapore 308442, Singapore; Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore; Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore. Electronic address: barnaby_young@ncid.sg.
Thuan Tong TanDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore; Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore.
Yee Sin LeoNational Centre for Infectious Diseases, Singapore 308442, Singapore; Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore; Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore; Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.

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 TreatmentAdenosine MonophosphateAdultAlanineDouble-Blind MethodHumansSARS-CoV-2Adenosine MonophosphateAlanineremdesivir

Identifiers

PMID33248473
PMCPMC7837362

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