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ReviewLancet (London, England)2021

The Lancet Commission on diagnostics: transforming access to diagnostics.

Kenneth A Fleming, Susan Horton, Michael L Wilson, Rifat Atun, Kristen DeStigter, John Flanigan, Shahin Sayed, Pierrick Adam, Bertha Aguilar, Savvas Andronikou and 22 more

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In one paragraph

Review in Lancet (London, England), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 260 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
260citing 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

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

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  9. Assessment of the Prioritization of Diagnostics in National Action Plans for Antimicrobial Resistance.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2026
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  10. Point of Care Testing and Recombinase Polymerase Amplification.Journal of clinical laboratory analysis · 2026
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200 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

32 authors.

Kenneth A FlemingGreen Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Susan HortonSchool of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. Electronic address: sehorton@uwaterloo.ca.
Michael L WilsonDenver Health and Hospital Authority, Denver, CO, USA.
Rifat AtunHarvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
Kristen DeStigterUniversity of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT, USA.
John FlaniganNational Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Shahin SayedAga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya.
Pierrick AdamMinistry of Health, Papeete, French Polynesia.
Bertha AguilarMédicos e Investigadores de la Lucha Contra el Cáncer de Mama, Mexico City, Mexico.
Savvas AndronikouPerelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Catharina BoehmeFIND, Geneva, Switzerland.
William CherniakDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Annie Ny CheungThe University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
Bernice DahnUniversity of Liberia, Monrovia, Liberia.
Lluis Donoso-BachDepartment of Medical Imaging, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Tania DouglasUniversity of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Patricia GarciaUniversidad Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
Sarwat HussainUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
Hari S IyerDana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
Mikashmi KohliDepartment of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Alain B LabriqueJohns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Lai-Meng LooiUniversity of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
John G MearaProgram in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
John NkengasongAfrica Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Madhukar PaiSchool of Population and Global Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Kara-Lee PoolRAD-AID International, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
Kaushik RamaiyaShri Hindu Mandal Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Lee SchroederUniversity of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Devanshi ShahSchool of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Richard SullivanKing's College London, London, UK.
Bien-Soo TanSingapore General Hospital, Singapore.
Kamini WaliaIndian Council of Medical Research, Delhi, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Developing CountriesDiagnostic ImagingDiagnostic Techniques and ProceduresCOVID-19Global HealthHealth Services AccessibilityHumansSocioeconomic Factors

Identifiers

PMID34626542
PMCPMC8494468

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.