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ReviewActa bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis2020

COVID-19 and literature evidence: should we publish anything and everything?

Jeremy Chan, Shwe Oo, Cheryl Yan Ting Chor, Daniel Yim, Jeffrey Shi Kai Chan, Amer Harky

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Review in Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
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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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Two Weeks of "COVID-19" Search on PubMed.gov.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Jeremy ChanDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, Coventry, UK. jeremychan@nhs.uk.
Shwe OoDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol, UK. shweoo@hotmail.com.
Cheryl Yan Ting ChorSt. George's Medical School, University of London, London, SW17 0RE, UK. cherylchor@nhs.uk.
Daniel YimSt. George's Medical School, University of London, London, SW17 0RE, UK. daniel.yim@nhs.uk.
Jeffrey Shi Kai ChanDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong. jeffrey.chan@link.edu.hk.
Amer HarkyArray. aaharky@gmail.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19 first presented in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in December 2019. Since then, it has rapidly spread across the world, and is now formally considered a pandemic. As of 4th of May more than 3.2 million people have been infected and over 250,000 people has died. Since the very start, scientists and researchers have tried to utilize this case to publish academic experiences and suggestions toward fighting this virus, which is lethal in some cases. To date, more than 9,000 academic papers have been published since December 2019. The quality of publications varies from a plane letter to editor to randomized studies. This review aims to analyse the current published literature related to COVID-19 and assess the quality of such articles.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusPandemicsCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansPeriodicals as TopicPneumonia, ViralPublishingSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32921717
PMCPMC7717020

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