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ArticleThe British journal of surgery2024

Global access to technologies to support safe and effective inguinal hernia surgery: prospective, international cohort study.

National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery

Erratum issuedAbstract readMulticenter Study
In one paragraph

Article in The British journal of surgery, 2024. 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 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
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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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Observational
  5. Article
  6. Circulating Biomarkers as Potential Risk Factors for Inguinal Hernia.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery

Funding

National Health ServiceNational Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Global Health ResearchPortuguese Hernia and Abdominal Wall SocietySociedade Portuguesa de Hernia e Parede AbdominalUK Department of Health and Social CareUnit NIHR16.136.79
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Hernia, InguinalHerniorrhaphyFemaleGlobal HealthHealth Services AccessibilityHumansMaleProspective Studies

Identifiers

PMID38985889
PMCPMC11235323

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Registered trials

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