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ArticleSignificance (Oxford, England)2020

Tests in short supply? Try group testing.

Christopher R Bilder, Peter C Iwen, Baha Abdalhamid, Joshua M Tebbs, Christopher S McMahan

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Article in Significance (Oxford, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Safe and effective pool testing for SARS-CoV-2 detection.Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology · 2021
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  8. Improvement of Sensitivity of Pooling Strategies for COVID-19.Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Christopher R BilderProfessor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Peter C IwenProfessor in the Department of Pathology and Microbiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and director of the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory.
Baha AbdalhamidAssistant professor in the Department of Pathology and Microbiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and faculty scientist at the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory.
Joshua M TebbsProfessor and chair of the Department of Statistics at the University of South Carolina.
Christopher S McMahanAssociate professor in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Clemson University.

Funding

Group testing for infectious disease detection: multiplex assays and back-end screeningR01AI121351 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN · PI BILDER, CHRISTOPHER R · 2016 to 2025
$3.3M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI121351
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID32536952
PMCPMC7283891

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