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ArticleInfection2021

Evaluating the clinical utility and sensitivity of SARS-CoV-2 antigen testing in relation to RT-PCR Ct values.

Lukas Lanser, Rosa Bellmann-Weiler, Karla-Wanda Öttl, Lukas Huber, Andrea Griesmacher, Igor Theurl, Günter Weiss

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Article in Infection, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 3 of them syntheses that 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

40 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Rapid, point-of-care antigen tests for diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Lukas LanserDepartment of Internal Medicine II, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstraße 35, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
Rosa Bellmann-WeilerDepartment of Internal Medicine II, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstraße 35, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
Karla-Wanda ÖttlDepartment of Internal Medicine II, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstraße 35, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
Lukas HuberDepartment of Internal Medicine II, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstraße 35, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
Andrea GriesmacherCentral Institute for Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnosis, Innsbruck University Hospital, Innsbruck, Austria.
Igor TheurlDepartment of Internal Medicine II, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstraße 35, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
Günter WeissDepartment of Internal Medicine II, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstraße 35, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria. guenter.weiss@i-med.ac.at.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0709-2158

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

COVID-19COVID-19 Serological TestingHumansReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, ViralSARS-CoV-2Sensitivity and SpecificityRNA, Viral

Identifiers

PMID33185807
PMCPMC7662025

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