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ArticleBulletin of the World Health Organization2014

Health and safety in recreational waters.

Saverio Giampaoli, Vincenzo Romano Spica

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Article in Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8citing 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

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

  1. Asthma risk in young people who attended chlorinated swimming pools in early childhood.Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo · 2025
    Pooled it
  2. Surveillance ofMicroorganisms · 2022
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  7. Recreational Use of Spa Thermal Waters: Criticisms and Perspectives for Innovative Treatments.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018
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  8. Assessment of Microbiological Safety of Water in Public Swimming Pools in Guangzhou, China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Saverio GiampaoliPublic Health Unit, University of Rome "Foro Italico", Rome, Italy .
Vincenzo Romano SpicaPublic Health Unit, University of Rome "Foro Italico", Rome, Italy .

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

RecreationSafety ManagementWater MicrobiologyBathsCongresses as TopicEnvironmental MonitoringHumansSanitationSwimming PoolsWater PollutantsWater Pollutants

Identifiers

PMID24623897
PMCPMC3949538

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.