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ArticleBMJ global health2020

Making sense of emerging evidence on the non-specific effects of the BCG vaccine on malaria risk and neonatal mortality.

Quique Bassat, Gemma Moncunill, Carlota Dobaño

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Article in BMJ global health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 42% of its field
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, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Old vaccines for new infections: Exploiting innate immunity to control COVID-19 and prevent future pandemics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Quique BassatISGlobal, Hospital Clínic - Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-0875-7596
Gemma MoncunillISGlobal, Hospital Clínic - Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Carlota DobañoISGlobal, Hospital Clínic - Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Barcelona Institute for Global Health · ESInstitució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

epidemiologymalariavaccines

Identifiers

PMID32201627
PMCPMC7059422
OpenAlexW3010474244

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

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