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Observational studyFrontiers in public health2020

The North American Layman's Understanding of COVID-19: Are We Doing Enough?

Ali Salimi, Hassan ElHawary, Nermin Diab, Lee Smith

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Observational study in Frontiers in public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
10.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Communicating scientific uncertainty in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A message experiment.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2024
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  7. Skills for communicating severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 result to patients and/or relatives.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2021
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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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Ali SalimiDepartment of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Hassan ElHawaryDivision of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Nermin DiabDivision of Respirology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Lee SmithThe Cambridge Centre for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
McGill University · CAAnglia Ruskin University · GBUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticePandemicsAdolescentAdultAgedCanadaCommunicable Disease ControlCOVID-19Cross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHealth PolicyHumansMaleMiddle AgedRisk AssessmentUnited StatesbehaviorcoronavirusCOVID-19global healthknowledgepandemicpublic healthrisk perception

Identifiers

PMID32719768
PMCPMC7349001
OpenAlexW3040145761

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Registered trials

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