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ArticleNeurosurgery2020

Letter: The Risk of COVID-19 Infection During Neurosurgical Procedures: A Review of Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Modes of Transmission and Proposed Neurosurgery-Specific Measures for Mitigation.

Christian Iorio-Morin, Mojgan Hodaie, Can Sarica, Nicolas Dea, Harrison J Westwick, Sean D Christie, Patrick J McDonald, Moujahed Labidi, Jean-Pierre Farmer, Simon Brisebois and 3 more

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Article in Neurosurgery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 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

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

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  4. How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted clinical care and research in Neuro-Oncology?Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia · 2022
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  10. Results of a national web-based survey on the SARS-CoV-2 infectious state of otorhinolaryngologists in Germany.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2021
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  18. COVID-19 and its Modes of Transmission.SN comprehensive clinical medicine · 2020
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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

13 authors.

Christian Iorio-MorinDivision of Neurosurgery Department of Surgery Université de Sherbrooke Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
Mojgan HodaieDivision of Neurosurgery Department of Surgery University of Toronto University Health Network - TWH Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Can SaricaDivision of Neurosurgery Department of Surgery University of Toronto University Health Network - TWH Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Nicolas DeaDivision of Neurosurgery Department of Surgery University of British Columbia Blusson Spinal Cord Center Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Harrison J WestwickCIUSSS du Nord de l'Ile de Montréal Hôpital de Sacré-Coeur de Montréal Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Sean D ChristieDivision of Neurosurgery Department of Surgery Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Patrick J McDonaldDivision of Neurosurgery Department of Surgery University of British Columbia BC Children's Hospital Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Moujahed LabidiDivision of Neurosurgery Department of Surgery Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Jean-Pierre FarmerDivision of Neurosurgery Department of Pediatric Surgery McGill University The Montreal Children's Hospital Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Simon BriseboisDivision of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Department of Surgery Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
Frédérick D'AragonDepartment of Anesthesiology Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
Alex CarignanDepartment of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
David FortinDivision of Neurosurgery Department of Surgery Université de Sherbrooke Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID32335684
PMCPMC7188127

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