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SynthesisInvestigacion y educacion en enfermeria2020

Face masks vs. COVID-19: a systematic review.

Behzad Fouladi Dehaghi, Abbas Ghodrati-Torbati, Gholamheidar Teimori, Leila Ibrahimi Ghavamabadi, Amir Jamshidnezhad

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In one paragraph

Synthesis in Investigacion y educacion en enfermeria, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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16citing 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

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

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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

5 authors.

Behzad Fouladi DehaghiAhvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran, bdehaghi@gmail.com.
Abbas Ghodrati-TorbatiTorbat Heydariyeh University of Medical Sciences, Torbat Heydariyeh, Iran, ghodratita171@yahoo.com.
Gholamheidar TeimoriTorbat Heydariyeh University of Medical Sciences, Torbat Heydariyeh, Iran, teimorigh1@gmail.com.
Leila Ibrahimi GhavamabadiIslamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran, ebrahimi.ghavam@gmail.com.
Amir JamshidnezhadAhvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran, dr.jamshidnejad@gmail.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusMasksCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Global HealthHealth PersonnelHumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralRespiratory Protective DevicesSARS-CoV-2coronavirus infectionsCOVID-19masks

Identifiers

PMID33047556
PMCPMC7883921

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