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ArticleLancet (London, England)2021

Transforming access to diagnostics: how to turn good intentions into action?

Pascale Ondoa, Linda Oskam, Marguerite Massinga Loembe, Iruka N Okeke

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Article in Lancet (London, England), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. CAPTURA Regional Workshop Proceedings (28-30 June 2022, Virtual).Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023
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  8. Diagnostic waste: whose responsibility?Globalization and health · 2022
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  9. Towards a fiercely urgent expansion of laboratory medicine in Africa.African journal of laboratory medicine · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Pascale OndoaAfrican Society for Laboratory Medicine, Kirkos Subcity Kebele 08, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Electronic address: pondoa@aslm.org.
Linda OskamDATOS, Leiden, Netherlands.
Marguerite Massinga LoembeAfrican Society for Laboratory Medicine, Kirkos Subcity Kebele 08, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Iruka N OkekeFaculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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PMID34626543
PMCPMC9757899

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