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ArticleThe Journal of hospital infection2020

Alcohol-based hand rub and influenza A: the danger of publishing a flawed study with no clinical relevance.

A Peters, E Frat, A Iten, J Sauser, M Schibler, D Pittet

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Article in The Journal of hospital infection, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

A PetersInfection Control Program and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, The University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.
E FratIntermountain LDS Hospital, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
A ItenInfection Control Program and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, The University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.
J SauserInfection Control Program and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, The University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.
M SchiblerInfectious Diseases Division and National Reference Centers for Influenza and Emerging Viruses, The University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.
D PittetInfection Control Program and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, The University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: Didier.pittet@hcuge.ch.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Influenza, HumanAlcoholsHandHand DisinfectionHumansPublishingAlcoholsAlcohol-based hand rubHand hygieneHand sanitizerInfection prevention and controlInfluenza AWorld Health Organization

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PMID31606432

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