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ArticleAnnals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials2020

Changes in the spatial distribution of COVID-19 incidence in Italy using GIS-based maps.

Cecilia Acuti Martellucci, Ranjit Sah, Ali A Rabaan, Kuldeep Dhama, Cristina Casalone, Kovy Arteaga-Livias, Toyoaki Sawano, Akihiko Ozaki, Divya Bhandari, Asaka Higuchi and 6 more

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Article in Annals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 2 of them syntheses 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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Cecilia Acuti MartellucciSection of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health, University of the Marche Region, Ancona, Italy.
Ranjit SahDepartment of Microbiology, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Ali A RabaanMolecular Diagnostic Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Kuldeep DhamaDivision of Pathology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, 243 122, India.
Cristina CasaloneIstituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d'Aosta (IZSPLV), Turin, Italy.
Kovy Arteaga-LiviasFaculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizán, Huánuco, Peru.
Toyoaki SawanoDepartment of Surgery, Sendai City Medical Center, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.
Akihiko OzakiDepartment of Breast Surgery, Jyoban Hospital of Tokiwa Foundation, Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan.
Divya BhandariMedical Governance Research Institute, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Asaka HiguchiMedical Governance Research Institute, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Yasuhiro KoteraUniversity of Derby, Derby, UK.
Zareena FathahRoyal Holloway, University of London, London, UK.
Namrata RoySRM Medical College, Hospital and Research Center, Chennai, India.
Mohammed Ateeq Ur RahmanKarnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka, India.
Tetsuya TanimotoMedical Governance Research Institute, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Alfonso J Rodriguez-MoralesMasters in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Cientifica del Sur, Calle Cantuarias 398, Miraflores, 15074, Lima, Peru. arodriguezm@utp.edu.co.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralBetacoronavirusCOVID-19Geographic Information SystemsHumansIncidenceItalySARS-CoV-2SoftwareCOVID-19Geographical information systemsItalyPandemicSARS-CoV-2

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PMID32682420
PMCPMC7368601

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