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ArticleThe Journal of hospital infection2020

Is it possible to achieve 100 percent hand hygiene compliance during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic?

S-C Wong, C H-Y AuYeung, G K-M Lam, E Y-L Leung, V W-M Chan, K-Y Yuen, V C-C Cheng

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Article in The Journal of hospital infection, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

S-C WongInfection Control Team, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong West Cluster, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
C H-Y AuYeungInfection Control Team, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong West Cluster, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
G K-M LamInfection Control Team, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong West Cluster, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
E Y-L LeungInfection Control Team, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong West Cluster, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
V W-M ChanInfection Control Team, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong West Cluster, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
K-Y YuenDepartment of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, SAR, Hong Kong, China.
V C-C ChengInfection Control Team, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong West Cluster, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China; Department of Microbiology, Queen Mary Hospital, SAR, Hong Kong, China. Electronic address: vcccheng@hku.hk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

CoronavirusHand HygienePandemicsPneumonia, ViralBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Hong KongHumansInfection ControlSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32422309
PMCPMC7255117

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