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ArticleCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2020

Perspectives on personal protective equipment in acute care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Josh Ng-Kamstra, Henry T Stelfox, Kirsten Fiest, John Conly, Jeanna Parsons Leigh

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Article in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. The Health and Safety Experiences of Precariously Employed Bangladeshi Immigrant Workers in Toronto During the COVID-19 Pandemic.New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS · 2024
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  5. Prediction and follow-up of risk factors for severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia and application of CT visual scoring.Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine · 2021
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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

5 authors.

Josh Ng-KamstraDepartment of Critical Care Medicine (Ng-Kamstra, Stelfox, Fiest), Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services; Departments of Community Health Sciences and O'Brien Institute for Public Health (Stelfox, Fiest), Psychiatry and Hotchkiss Brain Institute (Fiest), Medicine (Conly), Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Conly) and Microbiology, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases, and Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases (Conly), Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta.; Faculty of Health ( Parsons Leigh), School of Health Administration, and Department of Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (Parsons Leigh), Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS.
Henry T StelfoxDepartment of Critical Care Medicine (Ng-Kamstra, Stelfox, Fiest), Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services; Departments of Community Health Sciences and O'Brien Institute for Public Health (Stelfox, Fiest), Psychiatry and Hotchkiss Brain Institute (Fiest), Medicine (Conly), Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Conly) and Microbiology, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases, and Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases (Conly), Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta.; Faculty of Health ( Parsons Leigh), School of Health Administration, and Department of Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (Parsons Leigh), Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS.
Kirsten FiestDepartment of Critical Care Medicine (Ng-Kamstra, Stelfox, Fiest), Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services; Departments of Community Health Sciences and O'Brien Institute for Public Health (Stelfox, Fiest), Psychiatry and Hotchkiss Brain Institute (Fiest), Medicine (Conly), Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Conly) and Microbiology, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases, and Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases (Conly), Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta.; Faculty of Health ( Parsons Leigh), School of Health Administration, and Department of Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (Parsons Leigh), Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS.
John ConlyDepartment of Critical Care Medicine (Ng-Kamstra, Stelfox, Fiest), Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services; Departments of Community Health Sciences and O'Brien Institute for Public Health (Stelfox, Fiest), Psychiatry and Hotchkiss Brain Institute (Fiest), Medicine (Conly), Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Conly) and Microbiology, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases, and Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases (Conly), Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta.; Faculty of Health ( Parsons Leigh), School of Health Administration, and Department of Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (Parsons Leigh), Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS.
Jeanna Parsons LeighDepartment of Critical Care Medicine (Ng-Kamstra, Stelfox, Fiest), Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services; Departments of Community Health Sciences and O'Brien Institute for Public Health (Stelfox, Fiest), Psychiatry and Hotchkiss Brain Institute (Fiest), Medicine (Conly), Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Conly) and Microbiology, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases, and Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases (Conly), Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta.; Faculty of Health ( Parsons Leigh), School of Health Administration, and Department of Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (Parsons Leigh), Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS j.parsonsleigh@dal.ca.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Personal Protective EquipmentBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Health PersonnelHumansInfection ControlInfectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-ProfessionalPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSafety ManagementSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32586837
PMCPMC7828870

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