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ArticlePreventive medicine2014

Efficacy of face masks and respirators in preventing upper respiratory tract bacterial colonization and co-infection in hospital healthcare workers - authors' reply.

C Raina MacIntyre, Quanyi Wang, Bayzidur Rahman, Holly Seale, Iman Ridda, Zhanhai Gao, Peng Yang, Weixian Shi, Xinghuo Pang, Yi Zhang and 2 more

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Article in Preventive medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing 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

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

  1. Effectiveness of Masks and Respirators Against Respiratory Infections in Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2017
    Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. On respiratory droplets and face masks.Physics of fluids (Woodbury, N.Y. : 1994) · 2020
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

C Raina MacIntyreSchool of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Australia, Australia; National Centre for Immunization Research and Surveillance, Westmead, Sydney, Australia.
Quanyi WangThe Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing, China.
Bayzidur RahmanSchool of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Australia, Australia.
Holly SealeSchool of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Australia, Australia.
Iman RiddaSchool of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Australia, Australia; National Centre for Immunization Research and Surveillance, Westmead, Sydney, Australia.
Zhanhai GaoSchool of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Australia, Australia.
Peng YangThe Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing, China.
Weixian ShiThe Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing, China.
Xinghuo PangThe Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing, China.
Yi ZhangThe Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing, China.
Aye MoaSchool of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Australia, Australia. Electronic address: a.moa@unsw.edu.au.
Dominic E DwyerCentre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services, Institute for Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CoinfectionFemaleHumansMaleMedical Staff, HospitalRespiratory Protective DevicesRespiratory Tract InfectionsBacterial colonizationHealthcare workersHospitalsN95 respirators and medical masks

Identifiers

PMID24905863

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Registered trials

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