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ArticleEuropean urology2020

Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Diffusion when Performing Minimally Invasive Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Giacomo Novara, Gianluca Giannarini, Cosimo De Nunzio, Francesco Porpiglia, Vincenzo Ficarra

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Article in European urology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 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

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

  1. Laparoscopic Surgery and the debate on its safety during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review of recommendations.The surgeon : journal of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Ireland · 2021
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  5. The Impact of COVID-19 Disease on Urology Practice.Surgery journal (New York, N.Y.) · 2021
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  16. Impact of Covid-19 on the urology service in United States: perspectives and strategies to face a Pandemic.International braz j urol : official journal of the Brazilian Society of Urology · 2020
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  17. Laparoscopic and Robotic Urology Surgery during Global Pandemic COVID19.International braz j urol : official journal of the Brazilian Society of Urology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Giacomo NovaraUrology Unit, Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy. Electronic address: giacomonovara@gmail.com.
Gianluca GiannariniUrology Unit, Santa Maria della Misericordia Academic Medical Centre, Udine, Italy.
Cosimo De NunzioDepartment of Urology, Sant' Andrea Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Francesco PorpigliaDivision of Urology, Department of Oncology, School of Medicine, San Luigi Hospital, University of Turin, Orbassano, Italy.
Vincenzo FicarraUrologic Section, Gaetano Barresi Department of Human and Pediatric Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSevere acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirusBetacoronavirusChinaCOVID-19HumansItalyMinimally Invasive Surgical ProceduresSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32336644
PMCPMC7152887

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