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ArticleBMJ global health2021

COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa region: an urgent call for reliable, disaggregated and openly shared data.

Sarah Wehbe, Sasha A Fahme, Anthony Rizk, Ghina R Mumtaz, Jocelyn DeJong, Abla M Sibai

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Article in BMJ global health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 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

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Leveraging Serosurveillance and Postmortem Surveillance to Quantify the Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Africa.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023
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  17. Dating first cases of COVID-19.PLoS pathogens · 2021
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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.

Sarah WehbeFaculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
Sasha A FahmeFaculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
Anthony RizkGraduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.
Ghina R MumtazFaculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
Jocelyn DeJongFaculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
Abla M SibaiFaculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon am00@aub.edu.lb.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19Information DisseminationPublic HealthAfrica, NorthernDatabases, FactualFemaleHumansMaleMiddle Eastepidemiologyhealth systems evaluationpublic health

Identifiers

PMID33563720
PMCPMC7874901

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