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ArticleThe Lancet. Infectious diseases2021

Rolling out COVID-19 antigen rapid diagnostic tests: the time is now.

Rosanna W Peeling, Piero Olliaro

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Article in The Lancet. Infectious diseases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19citing 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

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

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  8. Prerequisite for COVID-19 Prediction: A Review on Factors Affecting the Infection Rate.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  16. The potential of SARS-CoV-2 antigen-detection tests in the screening of asymptomatic persons.Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases · 2021
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  18. Managing the risks of making the wrong diagnosis: First, do no harm.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Rosanna W PeelingClinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK. Electronic address: rosanna.peeling@lshtm.ac.uk.
Piero OlliaroCentre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19Antigens, ViralHumansSARS-CoV-2Sensitivity and SpecificityAntigens, Viral

Identifiers

PMID33773617
PMCPMC7993925

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