Including unpublished surveys in reviews on Chagas disease in Mexico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
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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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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author Buekens, Pierre
López-Cárdenas, Jorge
Dumonteil, Eric
Padilla-Raygoza, Nicolas
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description 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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spelling pubmed-76590802020-11-13 Including unpublished surveys in reviews on Chagas disease in Mexico Buekens, Pierre López-Cárdenas, Jorge Dumonteil, Eric Padilla-Raygoza, Nicolas Public Health Rev Commentary A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. BioMed Central 2020-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7659080/ /pubmed/33292766 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40985-020-00140-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Including unpublished surveys in reviews on Chagas disease in Mexico
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url 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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