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ArticleOral radiology2020

The practice of oral and maxillofacial radiology during COVID-19 outbreak.

Shahram Hamedani, Nima Farshidfar

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Article in Oral radiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shahram HamedaniOral and Dental Disease Research Center, School of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Nima FarshidfarStudent Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. n.farshidfar@icloud.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2944-5305
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has brought substantial challenges to the world health system, including the practice of dental and maxillofacial radiology (DMFR). DMFR will carry on an imperative role in healthcare during this crisis. This rapid communication has collected and evaluated all the best current evidence and published guidelines as well as professional recommendations to help maxillofacial radiologists and dental practitioners for safer radiological and imaging examinations on healthy, suspected, or confirmed COVID-19 patients during outbreak. Some strategies have been depicted including procedural indications, infection control, and correct employment of personal protection equipment along with evoking the proper practice environment during and after the COVID-19 outbreak.

Indexed as

Radiography, DentalBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19DentistsHumansInfection ControlPandemicsPersonal Protective EquipmentPneumonia, ViralProfessional RoleRadiologistsSARS-CoV-2COVID-19Dental radiographyDentistryRadiologySARS-COV-2

Identifiers

PMID32638200
PMCPMC7338339
OpenAlexW3041942417

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