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ReviewPediatric clinics of North America2021

Health Disparities and Their Effects on Children and Their Caregivers During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic.

Lynn C Smitherman, William Christopher Golden, Jennifer R Walton

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Review in Pediatric 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 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.5field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 39 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 3 institutions in 1 country.

Lynn C SmithermanDepartment of Pediatrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 400 Mack Avenue, Suite 1 East, Detroit, MI 48201, USA. Electronic address: lsmither@med.wayne.edu.
William Christopher GoldenEudowood Neonatal Pulmonary Division, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1800 Orleans Street, Bloomberg 8523, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Jennifer R WaltonDivision of Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, 700 Children's Drive, Columbus, OH 43205, USA.
Bloomberg (United States) · USThe Ohio State University · USWayne State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has uncovered long-standing health disparities in marginalized communities, including racial and ethnic minorities and children with underlying medical and social problems. African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans have higher rates of COVID-19 infections and deaths than their population percentages in the United States. Unique populations of children, including children with developmental disabilities, children in the foster care system, children with chronic medical problems, and children who are homeless are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 infection. This article explores how the COVID-19 pandemic superimposed on health disparities directly and indirectly affects children, adolescents, and their caregivers.

Indexed as

Health Status DisparitiesAdolescentChildCOVID-19EthnicityHealthcare DisparitiesHumansUnited StatesCOVID-19 pandemicHealth disparities in childrenSystemic racism

Identifiers

PMID34538304
PMCPMC8445754
OpenAlexW3200896146

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