ArticleInfluenza and other respiratory viruses2011
Respirators versus medical masks: evidence accumulates but the jury remains out.
Article in Influenza and other respiratory viruses, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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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.
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Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The use of masks and respirators to prevent transmission of influenza: a systematic review of the scientific evidence.Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2012Pooled it
- Preventive and protective measures reducing influenza transmission in general practice: a systematic review.BJGP open · 2019Article
- Respiratory Infections in the U.S. Military: Recent Experience and Control.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2015Review
- The use of respirators to reduce inhalation of airborne biological agents.Journal of occupational and environmental hygiene · 2013Article
- Economic analysis of the use of facemasks during pandemic (H1N1) 2009.Journal of theoretical biology · 2012Article
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