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SynthesisSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Features and Practicability of the Next-Generation Sensors and Monitors for Exposure Assessment to Airborne Pollutants: A Systematic Review.

Giacomo Fanti, Francesca Borghi, Andrea Spinazzè, Sabrina Rovelli, Davide Campagnolo, Marta Keller, Andrea Cattaneo, Emanuele Cauda, Domenico Maria Cavallo

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Synthesis in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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14citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines 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

9 authors.

Giacomo FantiDepartment of Science and High Technology, University of Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3728-839X
Francesca BorghiDepartment of Science and High Technology, University of Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3452-2803
Andrea SpinazzèDepartment of Science and High Technology, University of Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0371-3164
Sabrina RovelliDepartment of Science and High Technology, University of Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6403-5101
Davide CampagnoloDepartment of Science and High Technology, University of Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2836-6106
Marta KellerDepartment of Science and High Technology, University of Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy.
Andrea CattaneoDepartment of Science and High Technology, University of Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2962-7259
Emanuele CaudaCenter for Direct Reading and Sensor Technologies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Pittsburgh, PA 15236, USA.
Domenico Maria CavalloDepartment of Science and High Technology, University of Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the last years, the issue of exposure assessment of airborne pollutants has been on the rise, both in the environmental and occupational fields. Increasingly severe national and international air quality standards, indoor air guidance values, and exposure limit values have been developed to protect the health of the general population and workers; this issue required a significant and continuous improvement in monitoring technologies to allow the execution of proper exposure assessment studies. One of the most interesting aspects in this field is the development of the "next-generation" of airborne pollutants monitors and sensors (NGMS). The principal aim of this review is to analyze and characterize the state of the art and of NGMS and their practical applications in exposure assessment studies. A systematic review of the literature was performed analyzing outcomes from three different databases (Scopus, PubMed, Isi Web of Knowledge); a total of 67 scientific papers were analyzed. The reviewing process was conducting systematically with the aim to extrapolate information about the specifications, technologies, and applicability of NGMSs in both environmental and occupational exposure assessment. The principal results of this review show that the use of NGMSs is becoming increasingly common in the scientific community for both environmental and occupational exposure assessment. The available studies outlined that NGMSs cannot be used as reference instrumentation in air monitoring for regulatory purposes, but at the same time, they can be easily adapted to more specific applications, improving exposure assessment studies in terms of spatiotemporal resolution, wearability, and adaptability to different types of projects and applications. Nevertheless, improvements needed to further enhance NGMSs performances and allow their wider use in the field of exposure assessment are also discussed.

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Air PollutantsAir PollutionEnvironmental PollutantsEnvironmental MonitoringHumansAir PollutantsEnvironmental Pollutantscitizen scienceexposomelow-cost sensorsminiaturized monitorsmobile appwearable monitors

Identifiers

PMID34209443
PMCPMC8271362

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