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ArticlePublic health2020

Non-COVID-19 visits to emergency departments during the pandemic: the impact of fear.

Guglielmo Mantica, Niccolò Riccardi, Carlo Terrone, Angelo Gratarola

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Article in Public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 117 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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117citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

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

  1. Pooled it
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  18. Decline in emergency department visits during the COVID-19 quarantine.The American journal of emergency medicine · 2023
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57 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Guglielmo ManticaDepartment of Urology, Policlinico San Martino Hospital, University of Genoa, Genova, Italy. Electronic address: guglielmo.mantica@gmail.com.
Niccolò RiccardiDepartment of Infectious - Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Valpolicella di Negrar, Verona, Italy.
Carlo TerroneDepartment of Urology, Policlinico San Martino Hospital, University of Genoa, Genova, Italy.
Angelo GratarolaDivision of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, San Martino Policlinic Hospital, IRCCS for Oncology, Genoa, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CoronavirusMyocardial InfarctionBetacoronavirusChinaCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Emergency Service, HospitalFearHong KongHumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32417567
PMCPMC7203034

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