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ReviewThe Nursing clinics of North America2021

Herbal Medication to Enhance or Modulate Viral Infections.

Sherin F Tahmasbi, Maria A Revell, Natasha Tahmasebi

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Review in The Nursing clinics of North America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 12 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sherin F TahmasbiTennessee State University, School of Nursing, 3500 John A. Merritt Boulevard, Campus Box 9590, Nashville, TN 37209, USA. Electronic address: stahmasb@tnstate.edu.
Maria A RevellTennessee State University, School of Nursing, 3500 John A. Merritt Boulevard, Campus Box 9590, Nashville, TN 37209, USA.
Natasha TahmasebiKings College University, Guys Campus, Great maze pond, London SE1 1UL, England.
Tennessee State University · USKing's College - North Carolina · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Viral infections and their emergence continue to pose a threat to human lives. Up to the present, there are limited numbers of vaccines that effectively work and few antivirals licensed for use in clinical practice. Added to this is the increase in antiviral resistance, meaning that drugs that do work are at risk of reduced efficacy. The recent global pandemic of coronavirus 2019 has provided evidence for the risk of a preventative vaccination and effective treatment of viruses' subsequent consequences. The aim of this article is to review traditional and herbal treatments for infections, specifically addressing gastrointestinal and respiratory viral infections.

Indexed as

PhytotherapyAdvanced Practice NursingCOVID-19HumansNurse's RoleRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicVirus DiseasesCOVID-19GastrointestinalHerbsImmuneRespiratoryViral

Identifiers

PMID33549288
PMCPMC7699023
OpenAlexW3109507809

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.