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ArticleBrain & spine2024

A glimpse of practice of neurosurgery in Africa: Challenges and opportunities.

Inibehe Ime Okon, Fadele Kehinde Precious, Minaam Farooq, Ibukunolu Olufemi Ogundele, Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno, Bipin Chaurasia

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Article in Brain & spine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

6 authors.

Inibehe Ime OkonDepartment of Research, Medical Research Circle (MedReC), Bukavu, People's Republic of Congo.
Fadele Kehinde PreciousCollege of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu state, Nigeria.
Minaam FarooqDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, Presbyterian Hospital, USA.
Ibukunolu Olufemi OgundeleDepartment of Surgery, Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State, Nigeria.
Don Eliseo Lucero-PrisnoDepartment of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Bipin ChaurasiaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery Clinic, Birgunj, Nepal.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID38163000
PMCPMC10753432

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