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ReviewOral and maxillofacial surgery clinics of North America2020

Travel/Tropical Medicine and Pandemic Considerations for the Global Surgeon.

Christian Sandrock, Shahid R Aziz

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Review in Oral and maxillofacial surgery clinics of North America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

0 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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 at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Christian SandrockUC Davis School of Medicine, 4150 V street, Suite 3400, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA. Electronic address: cesandrock@ucdavis.edu.
Shahid R AzizRutgers School of Dental Medicine, 110 Bergen Street, Room B854, Newark, NJ 07103, USA.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · USUniversity of California, Davis · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

International travel goes hand in hand with medical delivery to underserved communities. The global health care worker can be exposed to a wide range of infectious diseases during their global experiences. A pretravel risk assessment visit and all appropriate vaccinations and education must be performed. Universal practices of water safety, food safety, and insect avoidance will prevent most travel-related infections and complications. Region-specific vaccinations will further reduce illness risk. An understanding of common travel-related illness signs and symptoms is helpful. Emerging pathogens that can cause a pandemic should be understood to avoid health care worker infection and spread.

Indexed as

SurgeonsTropical MedicineHumansPandemicsTravelTravel-Related IllnessEncephalitisFood-borne illnessPandemicPreparation for global surgeryPublic healthTick-borne illnessTravel medicineTropical medicine

Identifiers

PMID32473858
PMCPMC7205681
OpenAlexW3020870298

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Registered trials

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