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ArticleStatistical methods in medical research2020

The probability of detection of SARS-CoV-2 in saliva.

R N Thompson, N J Cunniffe

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Article in Statistical methods in medical research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Key questions for modelling COVID-19 exit strategies.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020
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  7. Oral lesions in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection: could the oral cavity be a target organ?Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology and oral radiology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

R N ThompsonMathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
N J CunniffeDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

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-19PandemicsPneumonia, ViralProbabilitySalivaSARS-CoV-2

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PMID32338180

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