Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32497511›Full record

ArticleLancet (London, England)2020

Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection for prevention of COVID-19.

C Raina MacIntyre, Quanyi Wang

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In one paragraph

Article in Lancet (London, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 71 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
71citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

71 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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11 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

C Raina MacIntyreThe Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. Electronic address: r.macintyre@unsw.edu.au.
Quanyi WangBeijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSevere acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansPersonal Protective EquipmentSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32497511
PMCPMC7263820

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.