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ArticleLancet (London, England)2020

A risk-based approach is best for decision making on holding mass gathering events.

Brian McCloskey, Alimuddin Zumla, Poh Lian Lim, Tina Endericks, Paul Arbon, Anita Cicero, Maria Borodina

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Article in Lancet (London, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that 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

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

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  6. Mass Gathering Medicine in Soccer Leagues: A Review and Creation of the SALEM Tool.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  8. COVID-19 and the scaled-down 2020 Hajj Pilgrimage-Decisive, logical and prudent decision making by Saudi authorities overcomes pre-Hajj public health concerns.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2020
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  9. COVID-19 and the scaled-down 2020 Hajj Pilgrimage - Decisive, logical and prudent decision making by Saudi authorities overcomes pre-Hajj public health concerns.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2020
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  10. Management of orthopaedic and traumatology patients during the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in northern Italy.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Brian McCloskeyCentre on Global Health Security, Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London SW1Y 4LE, UK. Electronic address: bmccloskey@chathamhouse.org.
Alimuddin ZumlaDivision of Infection and Immunity, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, University College London, London, UK; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Poh Lian LimNational Centre for Infectious Diseases, Singapore; Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
Tina EndericksPublic Health England, London, UK.
Paul ArbonFlinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Anita CiceroJohns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Maria BorodinaAcademy of Postgraduate Education, Federal Medical Biological Agency of Russia, Moscow, Russia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Anniversaries and Special EventsCoronavirus InfectionsCrowdingDecision MakingPandemicsPneumonia, ViralBetacoronavirusCOVID-19HumansPublic HealthPublic PolicySARS-CoV-2

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PMID32247321
PMCPMC7195068

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