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ArticleThe Journal of infection2020

Should qualitative RT-PCR be used to determine release from isolation of COVID-19 patients?

Karl Krupp, Purnima Madhivanan, Carlos M Perez-Velez

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Article in The Journal of infection, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Karl KruppDepartment of Health Promotion Sciences, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, 1295N. Martin Ave.; Drachman Hall A206X; PO Box 245209, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA. Electronic address: KKrupp@arizona.edu.
Purnima MadhivananDepartment of Health Promotion Sciences, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, 1295N. Martin Ave.; Drachman Hall A206X; PO Box 245209, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA; Division of Infectious Diseases, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA. Electronic address: PMadhivanan@arizona.edu.
Carlos M Perez-VelezDivision of Infectious Diseases, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA; Pima County Health Department, 3950 South Country Club Road, Suite 100, Tucson, Arizona 84714, USA. Electronic address: CMPerezVelez@gmail.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Clinical Laboratory TechniquesReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19COVID-19 TestingHumansPandemicsPatient IsolationPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Socioeconomic FactorsVirus SheddingCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)InfectivityPatient IsolationPolymerase chain reaction (PCR)Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Social IsolationSocioeconomic ImpactVirus Shedding

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PMID32562790
PMCPMC7299851

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