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ReviewJournal of clinical epidemiology2020

Open synthesis and the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.

Neal R Haddaway, Elie A Akl, Matthew J Page, Vivian A Welch, Ciara Keenan, Tamara Lotfi

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Review in Journal of clinical epidemiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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

6 authors.

Neal R HaddawayStockholm Environment Institute, Linnégatan 87D, Stockholm, Sweden; African Centre for Evidence, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa; The SEI Centre of the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence, Stockholm, Sweden; Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: neal_haddaway@hotmail.com.
Elie A AklDepartment of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HE&I), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; The Global Evidence Synthesis Initiative (GESI) Secretariat, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
Matthew J PageSchool of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Vivian A WelchBruyere Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada; Campbell Collaboration, Oslo, Norway; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa.
Ciara KeenanCampbell UK and Ireland, Belfast, UK; Centre for Evidence and Social Innovation, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK.
Tamara LotfiDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HE&I), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; The Global Evidence Synthesis Initiative (GESI) Secretariat, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralResearch DesignReview Literature as TopicCOVID-19HumansSARS-CoV-2Collaborative researchEvidence ecosystemRepeatabilityResearch wasteTraceabilityTransparency

Identifiers

PMID32621854
PMCPMC7328560

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.