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ArticleInternational journal of surgery (London, England)2020

A commentary on "World Health Organization declares global emergency: A review of the 2019 novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)".

Syed Ghulam Sarwar Shah, Alexandra Farrow

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Article in International journal of surgery (London, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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31citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

31 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Is there any potential management against COVID-19? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Daru : journal of Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences · 2020
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  11. Fear of COVID-19 Among Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease as Compared to Patients with Other Gastrointestinal Conditions.The Turkish journal of gastroenterology : the official journal of Turkish Society of Gastroenterology · 2022
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  13. Review of the Quality of YouTube Videos Recommending Exercises for the COVID-19 Lockdown.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Syed Ghulam Sarwar ShahNIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Way, Headington, Oxford, OX3 9DU, England, UK. Electronic address: Sarwar.Shah@ouh.nhs.uk.
Alexandra FarrowCollege of Health and Life Sciences, Department of Clinical Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsBetacoronavirusCOVID-19HumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2World Health OrganizationCoronavirusCovid-19EpidemicEpidemiologyHealth emergencyInfectious diseaseOutbreakPandemicPreventative measuresPublic fearPublic healthQuarantineSocial and economic implications

Identifiers

PMID32169574
PMCPMC7128929

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Registered trials

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