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ArticleThe Journal of hospital infection2020

Washing our hands of the problem.

C Lynch, N Mahida, B Oppenheim, J Gray

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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 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing 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

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

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  4. We need to talk about hand hygiene: A time to reflect on compliance.International journal of orthopaedic and trauma nursing · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

C LynchHealthcare Infection Society, Journal of Hospital Infection, Montagu House, Wakefield Street, London, WC1N, UK. Electronic address: christopher.lynch1@nhs.net.
N MahidaHealthcare Infection Society, Journal of Hospital Infection, Montagu House, Wakefield Street, London, WC1N, UK.
B OppenheimHealthcare Infection Society, Journal of Hospital Infection, Montagu House, Wakefield Street, London, WC1N, UK.
J GrayHealthcare Infection Society, Journal of Hospital Infection, Montagu House, Wakefield Street, London, WC1N, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Hand DisinfectionCOVID-19Equipment and Supplies, HospitalHumansInfection Control

Identifiers

PMID32169616
PMCPMC7138176

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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.