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ArticleInternational journal of surgery (London, England)2020

Personal protective equipment in the response to the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak - A letter to the editor on "World Health Organization declares global emergency: A review of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19)" (Int J Surg 2020; 76:71-6).

Yousif Ali, Mohammad Alradhawi, Nour Shubber, Abdul-Rahman Abbas

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Article in International journal of surgery (London, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. How to use laser safely in times of COVID-19: Systematic review.Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yousif AliUCL Medical School, University College London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: yousif.ali.17@ucl.ac.uk.
Mohammad AlradhawiUCL Medical School, University College London, United Kingdom.
Nour ShubberUCL Medical School, University College London, United Kingdom.
Abdul-Rahman AbbasUCL Medical School, University College London, United Kingdom.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CoronavirusSevere acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirusBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansPandemicsPersonal Protective EquipmentPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2World Health OrganizationCoronavirusCOVID-19GuidelinesPersonal protective equipment PPESARS-CoV-2United Kingdom UK

Identifiers

PMID32335233
PMCPMC7177111

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