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ArticleNature communications2025

Health data issues in Africa: time for digitization, standardization and harmonization.

Abdoelnaser Degoot, Ismaël Koné, Shakuntala Baichoo, Mercy Ngungu, Nzisa Liku, Judit Kumuthini, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Foutse Khomh, Bubacarr Bah

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. 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

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Abdoelnaser DegootData Science, Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Banjul, The Gambia. abdoelnaser-mahmood.degoot@lshtm.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8788-2496
Ismaël KonéData Science, Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Banjul, The Gambia. ismael.kone@lshtm.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9578-6629
Shakuntala BaichooDepartment of Digital Technologies, Faculty of Information, Communication and Digital Technologies, University of Mauritius, Réduit, Mauritius.
Mercy NgunguImpact Centre, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.
Nzisa LikuPublic Health and Digital Health Expert, Nairobi, Kenya.
Judit KumuthiniAfrican Biobank and Longitudinal Epidemiological Ecosystem, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Joyce Nakatumba-NabendeDepartment of Computer Science, School of Computing and Information Technology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0108-3798
Foutse KhomhMila-Quebec AI Institute, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5704-4173
Bubacarr BahData Science, Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Banjul, The Gambia.

Funding

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) INV-058418Wellcome Trust 228261Wellcome Trust (Wellcome) 228261/Z/23/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID40595591
PMCPMC12215761

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