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ArticleThe Lancet. Public health2021

Tuberculosis active case-finding: looking for cases in all the right places?

Edgar Ortiz-Brizuela, Dick Menzies

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Article in The Lancet. Public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Implementing active surveillance for tuberculosis: A quality improvement project.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2025
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  3. For Tuberculosis, Not "To Screen or Not to Screen?" but "Who?" and "How?"Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2024
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  5. The impact of sputum quality on Xpert positivity in active case-finding for TB.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2024
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  7. Active Case Finding among Adults using an Individual's Vulnerability Score for Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a Rural Village of Goa: A Cross-sectional Study.Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Edgar Ortiz-BrizuelaMontreal Chest Institute and McGill International TB Centre, and Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC H4A 3S5, Canada; Department of Medicine, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico.
Dick MenziesMontreal Chest Institute and McGill International TB Centre, and Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC H4A 3S5, Canada; Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, and Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC H4A 3S5, Canada. Electronic address: dick.menzies@mcgill.ca.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Mass ScreeningTuberculosisHumansRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicSystematic Reviews as Topic

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PMID33765457

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