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ArticleJournal of medical virology2020

Mask is the possible key for self-isolation in COVID-19 pandemic.

Zhiguo Zhou, Dongsheng Yue, Chenlu Mu, Lei Zhang

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Article in Journal of medical virology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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22citing 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

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

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  5. IoT-Based Smart Mask Protection against the Waves of COVID-19.Journal of ambient intelligence and humanized computing · 2022
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  15. A Social Network Analysis of Tweets Related to Masks during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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  20. [Mask use during high impact exercise in the pandemic.]Revista espanola de salud publica · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Zhiguo ZhouDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, The First Hospital of Changsha City, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Dongsheng YueDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China.
Chenlu MuDepartment of Clinical Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Lei ZhangDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0961-5795

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19Hand HygieneHumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32267002
PMCPMC7262254

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