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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2021

Portable RT-PCR System: a Rapid and Scalable Diagnostic Tool for COVID-19 Testing.

Hosam M Zowawi, Thamer H Alenazi, Waleed S AlOmaim, Ahmad Wazzan, Abdullah Alsufayan, Rihab A Hasanain, Omar S Aldibasi, Sahar Althawadi, Sarah A Altamimi, Maysoon Mutabagani and 5 more

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 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

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Management of COVID-19 Patients in the Emergency Department.Journal of personalized medicine · 2021
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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

15 authors.

Hosam M ZowawiCollege of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia zowawih@ksau-hs.edu.sa.ORCID 0000-0002-9718-6475
Thamer H AlenaziCollege of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Waleed S AlOmaimDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Ahmad WazzanCollege of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Abdullah AlsufayanPrince Sultan Military Medical City, Ministry of Defence, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Rihab A HasanainIQVIA, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Omar S AldibasiCollege of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Sahar AlthawadiDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Sarah A AltamimiDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Maysoon MutabaganiDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Maha AlamriInternal Medicine Department, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Reem S AlmaghrabiInternal Medicine Department, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Hail M Al-AbdelyInternal Medicine Department, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Ziad A MemishResearch and Innovative Centre, King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Saleh A AlqahtaniLiver Transplantation Unit, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Combating the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic demands accurate, rapid, and point-of-care testing with fast results to triage cases for isolation and treatment. The current testing relies on reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR), which is routinely performed in well-equipped laboratories by trained professionals at specific locations. However, during busy periods, high numbers of samples queued for testing can delay the test results, impacting efforts to reduce the infection risk. Besides, the absence of well-established laboratories at remote sites and low-resourced environments can contribute to a silent spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). These reasons compel the need to accommodate point-of-care testing for COVID-19 that meets the ASSURED criteria (

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COVID-19COVID-19 Nucleic Acid TestingHumansReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionSARS-CoV-2Sensitivity and SpecificityBiomemeCOVID-19point-of-careportableRT-PCR

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PMID33674285
PMCPMC8091859

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