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ArticleInternational journal of nursing studies2020

Response to ''MacIntyre et al., 2020: A rapid systematic review of the efficacy of face masks and respirators against coronaviruses and other respiratory transmissible viruses for the community, healthcare workers and sick patients".

Amit Kumar Mandal, Paulami Dam, Octavio L Franco, Hanen Sellami, Sukhendu Mandal, Gulten Can Sezgin, Kinkar Biswas, Partha Sarathi Nandi, Ismail Ocsoy

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Article in International journal of nursing studies, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Amit Kumar MandalCentre for Nanotechnology Sciences and Chemical Biology Laboratory- Department of Sericulture, Raiganj University, Raiganj 733134, India. Electronic address: amitmandal08@gmail.com.
Paulami DamCentre for Nanotechnology Sciences and Chemical Biology Laboratory- Department of Sericulture, Raiganj University, Raiganj 733134, India.
Octavio L FrancoS-INOVA Biotech, Post-Graduate Program in Biotechnology, Catholic University Dom Bosco, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso Do Sul, Brazil.
Hanen SellamiLaboratory of Treatment and Valorization of Water Rejects (LTVRH), Water Researches and Technologies Center (CERTE), University of Carthage, BP 273-8020 Tourist route Soliman, Tunisia.
Sukhendu MandalDepartment of Microbiology, Laboratory of Molecular Bacteriology, Department of Microbiology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata 700019, India.
Gulten Can SezginDepartment of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Erciyes University, 38039 Kayseri, Turkey.
Kinkar BiswasLaboratory of Organic Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, Raiganj University, Raiganj 733134, India.
Partha Sarathi NandiDepartment of Zoology, Raiganj University, Raiganj 733134, India.
Ismail OcsoyDepartment of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Erciyes University, 38039 Kayseri, Turkey. Electronic address: ismailocsoy@erciyes.edu.tr.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

CoronavirusRespiratory Protective DevicesHealth PersonnelHumansMasks

Identifiers

PMID32732159
PMCPMC7365070

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