Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32412552›Full record

ArticleResources, conservation, and recycling2020

Improper solid waste management increases potential for COVID-19 spread in developing countries.

Christopher Nzediegwu, Scott X Chang

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Article in Resources, conservation, and recycling, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 126 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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126citing papers in PubMed, 4 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

126 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Does medical waste research during COVID-19 meet the challenge induced by the pandemic to waste management?Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA · 2024
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  12. Recycling facemasks into civil construction material to manage waste generated during COVID-19.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2024
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  19. The IoT-enabled sustainable reverse supply chain for COVID-19 Pandemic Wastes (CPW).Engineering applications of artificial intelligence · 2023
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66 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

2 authors.

Christopher NzediegwuDepartment of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Scott X ChangDepartment of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19daily facemasksdeveloping countriessolid waste

Identifiers

PMID32412552
PMCPMC7221374

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