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ArticleWellcome open research2019

Improving the design of studies evaluating the impact of diagnostic tests for tuberculosis on health outcomes: a qualitative study of perspectives of diverse stakeholders.

Eleanor A Ochodo, Selvan Naidoo, Samuel Schumacher, Karen Steingart, Jon Deeks, Frank Cobelens, Patrick M Bossuyt, Taryn Young, Mark P Nicol

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Article in Wellcome open research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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

9 authors.

Eleanor A OchodoCentre for Evidence-based Health Care, Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, Western Cape, 8000, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7951-3030
Selvan NaidooCentre for Evidence-based Health Care, Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, Western Cape, 8000, South Africa.
Samuel SchumacherTuberculosis department, Campus Biotech, Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, 1202, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-206X
Karen SteingartClinical sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, L3 5QA UK, UK.
Jon DeeksNIHR Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust and University of Birmingham; and Test Evaluation Research Group, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
Frank CobelensDepartment of Global Health and Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, 1105 BP, The Netherlands.
Patrick M BossuytDepartment of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Amsterdam Public Health research institute, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4427-0128
Taryn YoungCentre for Evidence-based Health Care, Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, Western Cape, 8000, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2406-081X
Mark P NicolSchool of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1366-4805

Funding

Wellcome Trust 109939/Z/15/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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ImpactPerspectivesQualitative researchTB diagnostic testsTB tests impactTuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID32133421
PMCPMC7041361

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