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ArticleWorld neurosurgery2020

Letter to the Editor: Risk of Hospital-Acquired Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Infection During Admission for Semiurgent Neurosurgical Procedures.

Linda D'Antona, Joanna Palasz, Huzaifah Haq, Inga Usher, Sophia De-Saram, Carmel Curtis, Lewis Thorne, Laurence Dale Watkins, Ahmed Kassem Toma

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Article in World neurosurgery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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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

9 authors.

Linda D'AntonaVictor Horsley Department of Neurosurgery, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom; UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: linda.d'antona@nhs.net.
Joanna PalaszVictor Horsley Department of Neurosurgery, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom.
Huzaifah HaqVictor Horsley Department of Neurosurgery, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom.
Inga UsherVictor Horsley Department of Neurosurgery, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom.
Sophia De-SaramDepartment of Clinical Microbiology, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
Carmel CurtisDepartment of Clinical Microbiology, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
Lewis ThorneVictor Horsley Department of Neurosurgery, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom.
Laurence Dale WatkinsVictor Horsley Department of Neurosurgery, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom.
Ahmed Kassem TomaVictor Horsley Department of Neurosurgery, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom; UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Neurosurgical ProceduresBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HospitalsHumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralRiskSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32535052
PMCPMC7289109

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