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ArticleThe Journal of hospital infection2020

Face masks and containment of COVID-19: experience from South Korea.

S Lim, H I Yoon, K-H Song, E S Kim, H B Kim

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Article in The Journal of hospital infection, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 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

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

24 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Changes in awareness on face mask use in Korea.Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · 2022
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  12. An upper bound on one-to-one exposure to infectious human respiratory particles.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  16. Infectious Respiratory Diseases Decreased during the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Korea.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  20. Mask Mandates and COVID-19 Related Symptoms in the US.ClinicoEconomics and outcomes research : CEOR · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

S LimDepartment of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seongnam, South Korea.
H I YoonDepartment of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seongnam, South Korea.
K-H SongDepartment of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seongnam, South Korea.
E S KimDepartment of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seongnam, South Korea.
H B KimDepartment of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seongnam, South Korea. Electronic address: ksbkhb@chollian.net.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusPandemicsPneumonia, ViralCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansMasksRepublic of KoreaSARS-CoV-2

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PMID32540463
PMCPMC7291980

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