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ArticleOral oncology2020

Utilization of COVID-19 testing for opportunistic screening of oral cancer.

Esam Halboub, Sadeq Ali Al-Maweri, Walid A Al-Soneidar

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Article in Oral oncology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Oral cavity cancer management during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Esam HalboubDepartment of Maxillofacial Surgery and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Dentistry, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia; Department of Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Sana'a University, Yemen. Electronic address: mhelboub@gmail.com.
Sadeq Ali Al-MaweriDepartment of Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, AlFarabi Colleges for Dentistry and Nursing, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Department of Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Sana'a University, Yemen. Electronic address: sadali05@hotmail.com.
Walid A Al-SoneidarDepartment of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Canada. Electronic address: walid.al-soneidar@mail.mcgill.ca.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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COVID-19 testingOpportunistic screeningOral cancer

Identifiers

PMID32423662
PMCPMC7200335

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