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ArticleThe Journal of infectious diseases2021

BCG Specific and Nonspecific Effects: Different Questions, Similar Challenges.

Sarah Prentice, Hazel M Dockrell

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Article in The Journal of infectious diseases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sarah PrenticeDepartment of Paediatrics and Neonatology, East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, Stevenage, United Kingdom.
Hazel M DockrellDepartment of Infection Biology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/R005850/1Wellcome Trust 102915/Z/13/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BCG VaccineVaccinationBCG Vaccine

Identifiers

PMID34244763
PMCPMC8514176

What OpenQuestion holds

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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.