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ArticleAmerican journal of infection control2020

Will the status of infection prevention and control (IPC) professionals be improved in the context of COVID-19?

Jiancong Wang, Fangfei Liu, Mouqing Zhou, Yew Fong Lee

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Article in American journal of infection control, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jiancong WangInstitute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: Jiancong.Wang@outlook.com.
Fangfei LiuInstitute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Mouqing ZhouDong Guan Nosocomial Infection Control and Quality Improvement Centre, Dongguan city, Guangdong Province, China.
Yew Fong LeeInstitute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, SwitzerlandMinistry of Health, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

BetacoronavirusChinaCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Health PersonnelHumansInfection ControlPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2

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PMID32303372
PMCPMC7142673

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