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ReviewAsiaIntervention2021

Management strategies for acute STEMI in low- and middle-income countries: experience of the Tamil Nadu ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction programme: Management strategies for STEMI in LMIC.

Thomas Alexander, Ajit Mullasari, Brahmajee Nallamothu

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Review in AsiaIntervention, 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Thomas AlexanderKovai Medical Centre and Hospital, Coimbatore, India.
Ajit MullasariDepartment of Cardiology, Madras Medical Mission, Chennai, India.
Brahmajee NallamothuDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Appropriate and timely management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction is a major challenge in developing countries due to inadequate infrastructure and trained manpower. The TN-STEMI Program was a successful STEMI system of care that was run in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Lessons learnt from this programme could help to understand the challenges and provide solutions to running similar programmes in low- and middle-income countries.

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PMID34912999
PMCPMC8670567

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