Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32680838›Full record

ArticleClinical medicine (London, England)2020

Should point-of-care ultrasound become part of healthcare worker testing for COVID?

Nicholas Smallwood, Andrew Walden, Prashant Parulekar, Martin Dachsel

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Article in Clinical medicine (London, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Doing what's necessary becomes doing what is possible.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2022
    Article
  3. Lung ultrasound in COVID-19.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2020
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Nicholas SmallwoodEast Surrey Hospital, Redhill, UK nicholas.smallwood@nhs.net.
Andrew WaldenRoyal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, UK.
Prashant ParulekarWilliam Harvey Hospital, Ashford, UK.
Martin DachselEast Surrey Hospital, Redhill, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The NHS in England has rapidly expanded staff testing for COVID-19 in order to allow healthcare workers who would otherwise be isolating with symptoms suspicious of COVID-19 to be cleared to work. However, the high false negative rate associated with current RT-PCR tests could put other staff, family members and patients at risk. We believe combining swab testing with real-time lung ultrasound (LUS) would improve the ability to rule-in COVID-19 infection in those requiring screening.

Indexed as

Clinical Laboratory TechniquesCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19COVID-19 TestingCOVID-19 VaccinesCross InfectionFemaleHealth PersonnelHumansLungMaleOccupational HealthPandemicsPneumonia, ViralPoint-of-Care SystemsSevere Acute Respiratory SyndromeCOVID-19 VaccinesCOVID-19POCUSscreening

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PMID32680838
PMCPMC7539727

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