Including unpublished surveys in reviews on Chagas disease in Mexico

A consequence of the late awareness of Chagas disease in North America is that many early studies were never published in peer-reviewed journals and are not easily accessible for inclusion in systematic reviews. We reviewed data from the state of Guanajuato, Mexico, as an illustration. Three populat...

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Autores principales: Buekens, Pierre, López-Cárdenas, Jorge, Dumonteil, Eric, Padilla-Raygoza, Nicolas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7659080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33292766
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40985-020-00140-7
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Sumario:A consequence of the late awareness of Chagas disease in North America is that many early studies were never published in peer-reviewed journals and are not easily accessible for inclusion in systematic reviews. We reviewed data from the state of Guanajuato, Mexico, as an illustration. Three population-based surveys have been performed between 1991 and 2002 and were never fully published. Systematic reviews should recognize this publication bias.

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