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ArticleJournal of the American Medical Directors Association2020

Loneliness and Isolation in Long-term Care and the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Joyce Simard, Ladislav Volicer

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Article in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05084898 (Do Far-UVC Light Devices Reduce the Incidence of Respiratory Viral Illness in Long-term Care Facilities?), which is not on this map. Cited by 119 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT05084898 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2021, after this paper: background citation

Do Far-UVC Light Devices Reduce the Incidence of Respiratory Viral Illness in Long-term Care Facilities?

TypeinterventionalSponsorKenneth RockwoodRan2021 to 2025Enrolled550ConditionsCOVID-19 Respiratory Infection, Respiratory Virus Infection, Influenza -Like IllnessArmsFar-UVC light as an additional method of disinfection, Placebo fluorescent light
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

119 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Caring for a Relative With Dementia in Long-Term Care During COVID-19.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2022
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  9. Association Between State Essential Caregiver Programs and Antipsychotic Medication Use Rate in Nursing Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2026
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  16. Lifting Federal Visitation Restriction and COVID-19 Infections in Nursing Homes.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2025
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59 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.

Joyce SimardUniversity of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Ladislav VolicerUniversity of South Florida, Tampa, FL. Electronic address: lvolicer@usf.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Cognitive DysfunctionCoronavirus InfectionsLonelinessPandemicsPneumonia, ViralBetacoronavirusCOVID-19HumansLong-Term CareNursing HomesSARS-CoV-2Surveys and Questionnaires

Identifiers

PMID32505516
PMCPMC7205644

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