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SynthesisJAMA network open2022

Geographical Representation of Low- and Middle-Income Countries in Randomized Clinical Trials for COVID-19.

Mahesh Ramanan, Steven Y C Tong, Aashish Kumar, Balasubramanian Venkatesh

Abstract readSystematic Review
In one paragraph

Synthesis in JAMA network open, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. The Current Landscape of Clinical Trials.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025
    Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Understanding Heterogeneity in Acute Care Trials: Resource Availability Impacts Outcomes.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2024
    Article
  7. Article
  8. Disparities in COVID-19 clinical studies from high-income and low-and middle-income countries.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2023
    Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Review
  12. The need for COVID-19 clinical trials in LMICs.Frontiers in public health · 2022
    Article
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

4 authors.

Mahesh RamananCritical Care Division, The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Steven Y C TongDepartment of Infectious Diseases, The University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Australia.
Aashish KumarLogan Hospital, Meadowbrook, Australia.
Balasubramanian VenkateshCritical Care Division, The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Global HealthCOVID-19Developing CountriesHumansPandemicsPeriodicals as TopicRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID35212752
PMCPMC8881769

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Registered trials

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