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ArticleAmerican journal of infection control2005

Comparative efficacy of hand hygiene agents in the reduction of bacteria and viruses.

Manfred Rotter, Syed A Sattar, Sasi Dharan, Paul Webber, Andreas Voss, Didier Pittet, World Health Organization (WHO) Task Force for the development of the WHO Guidelines for Hand Hygiene in Health Care, WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge, World Alliance for Patient Safety

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Article in American journal of infection control, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Surgical hand antisepsis to reduce surgical site infection.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016
    Pooled it
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Manfred Rotter
Syed A Sattar
Sasi Dharan
Paul Webber
Andreas Voss
Didier Pittet
World Health Organization (WHO) Task Force for the development of the WHO Guidelines for Hand Hygiene in Health Care
WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge
World Alliance for Patient Safety

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BacteriaDisinfectantsHandHand DisinfectionHumansVirusesDisinfectants

Identifiers

PMID16260331

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