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ArticleAmerican journal of surgery2025

Navigating the challenges of surgical research in low-and-middle income settings.

Chandler Hinson, Jenna Alkhatib, Lamario Williams, Madhushree Zope, Emmanuel A Ameh, Peter Nthumba, American Journal of Surgery STARs Committee

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Article in American journal of surgery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Perspectives in Plastic Surgery: View of Plastic Surgeons From Kenya.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Chandler HinsonFrederick P Whiddon College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, 5851 USA North Drive, Mobile, AL, 36688, USA. Electronic address: csh2121@jagmail.southalabama.edu.
Jenna AlkhatibHeerisnk School of Medicine, University of Alabama in Birmingham, 1670 University Blvd, Birmingham, AL, 35233, USA.
Lamario WilliamsHeerisnk School of Medicine, University of Alabama in Birmingham, 1670 University Blvd, Birmingham, AL, 35233, USA.
Madhushree ZopeDepartment of General Surgery, University of Alabama in Birmingham, 1808 7th Avenue South, #503U, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA.
Emmanuel A AmehDivision of Paediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Hospital, Central Business District, Abuja, 900103, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria.
Peter NthumbaDepartment of Plastic Surgery, AIC Kijabe Hospital, Kijabe Road, Kijabe, Kenya.
American Journal of Surgery STARs Committee

Funding

Surgical Oncology Research Training ProgramT32CA229102 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI HERBERT CHEN · 2018 to 2026
$3.2M
NCI NIH HHS T32 CA229102
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID39893055
PMCPMC12276970

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