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ArticleThe Journal of infection2020

The economics of infection prevention: why it is crucial to invest in hand hygiene and nurses during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Alexandra Peters, Nasim Lotfinejad, Alice Simniceanu, Didier Pittet

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Article in The Journal of infection, 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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8citing papers in PubMed
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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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Observation of Hand Hygiene Practices in Home Health Care.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2021
    Observational
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. COVID-19 pandemic crisis-a complete outline of SARS-CoV-2.Future journal of pharmaceutical sciences · 2020
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Alexandra PetersInfection Control Programme, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.
Nasim LotfinejadDepartment of Research, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Alice SimniceanuInfection Prevention and Control Hub and Antimicrobial Resistance Division, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Didier PittetInfection Control Programme, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: didier.pittet@hcuge.ch.

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Hand HygieneNursesCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansInfection ControlPandemicsPneumonia, ViralCOVID-19Hand hygieneInfection controlInfection prevention and controlMidwives, World Health Organization, Healthcare-associated infectionNursesSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32335177
PMCPMC7179502

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