Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32710908›Full record

ArticleGastroenterology2020

The Impact of the Coronavirus Disease-19 Pandemic on Access to Endoscopy Procedures in the VA Healthcare System.

Andrew J Gawron, Tonya Kaltenbach, Jason A Dominitz

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Article in Gastroenterology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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21citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  6. Impact of Retroactive Application of Updated Surveillance Guidelines on Endoscopy Center Capacity at a Large VA Health Care System.Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2025
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  13. Cancer Screening During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Mayo Clinic proceedings. Innovations, quality & outcomes · 2021
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  20. A call for structured re-opening of endoscopy services during the COVID-19 pandemic.Saudi journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Saudi Gastroenterology Association
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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

3 authors.

Andrew J GawronVA Salt Lake City Health Care System and, University of Utah School of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Tonya KaltenbachSan Francisco VA Health Care System and, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
Jason A DominitzVA Puget Sound Health Care System and, University of Washington School of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Seattle, Washington.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Early Detection of CancerEndoscopy, GastrointestinalHumansPandemicsPatient SelectionPneumonia, ViralPractice Guidelines as TopicReferral and ConsultationSARS-CoV-2Time FactorsUnited StatesUnited States Department of Veterans Affairs

Identifiers

PMID32710908
PMCPMC7375295

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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.