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ArticleAnnals of work exposures and health2021

Selecting Controls for Minimizing SARS-CoV-2 Aerosol Transmission in Workplaces and Conserving Respiratory Protective Equipment Supplies.

Lisa M Brosseau, Jonathan Rosen, Robert Harrison

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Article in Annals of work exposures and health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Returning to Work after the COVID-19 Pandemic Earthquake: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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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 at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Lisa M BrosseauCenter for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota, Office of the Vice President for Research, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Jonathan RosenAJ Rosen and Associates LLC, Schenectady, NY, USA.
Robert HarrisonDivision of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
University of California, San Francisco · USUniversity of Minnesota · US

Funding

NIOSH CDC HHS R13 OH009753NIOSH CDC HHS R25 OH008802NIOSH CDC HHS U60 OH008468
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With growing evidence of inhalation of small infectious particles as an important mode of transmission for SARS-CoV-2, workplace risk assessments should focus on eliminating or minimizing such exposures by applying the hierarchy of controls. We adapt a control banding model for aerosol-transmissible infectious disease pandemic planning to encourage the use of source and pathway controls before receptor controls (personal protective equipment). Built on the recognition that aerosol-transmissible organisms are likely to exhibit a dose-response function, such that higher exposures result from longer contact times or higher air concentrations, this control banding model offers a systematic method for identifying a set of source and pathway controls that could eliminate or reduce the need for receptor controls. We describe several examples for workers at high risk of exposure in essential or return to work categories. The goal of using control banding for such workers is to develop effective infection and disease prevention programs and conserve personal protective equipment.

Indexed as

AerosolsCOVID-19HumansInfection ControlInfectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-ProfessionalOccupational ExposurePersonal Protective EquipmentWorkplaceAerosolsaerosol transmissioncontrol bandingCOVID-19hierarchy of controlsoccupational safety and healthSARS-CoV-2workplace exposure

Identifiers

PMID32820333
PMCPMC7454303
OpenAlexW3080784495

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Registered trials

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