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ArticleFrontiers in public health

Real-World Evidence: The Low Validity of Temperature Screening for COVID-19 Triage.

Bogdan C Pană, Henrique Lopes, Florentina Furtunescu, Diogo Franco, Anca Rapcea, Mihai Stanca, Alina Tănase, Anca Coliţă

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Article in Frontiers in public health. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Bogdan C PanăDepartment of Public Health, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
Henrique LopesPublic Health Unit, Institute of Health Sciences, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Catholic University of Portugal), Lisbon, Portugal.
Florentina FurtunescuDepartment of Public Health, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
Diogo FrancoPublic Health Unit, Institute of Health Sciences, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Catholic University of Portugal), Lisbon, Portugal.
Anca RapceaDepartment of Public Health, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
Mihai StancaDepartment of Public Health, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
Alina TănaseBone Marrow Transplantation Unit, Fundeni Clinical Institute, Bucharest, Romania.
Anca ColiţăDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy · ROUniversidade Católica Portuguesa · PTInstitutul Clinic Fundeni · RO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19HumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2TemperatureTriageCOVID-19non-contact temperature measurementSARS-CoV-2screeningtriage

Identifiers

PMID34277541
PMCPMC8277959
OpenAlexW3175408147

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