Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34362540›Full record

ReviewInfectious disease clinics of North America2021

Occupational Health Update: Approach to Evaluation of Health Care Personnel and Preexposure Prophylaxis.

Erica S Shenoy, David J Weber

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In one paragraph

Review in Infectious disease clinics of North America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 46% 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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Review
  3. Observational
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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Erica S ShenoyInfection Control Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Bulfinch 334, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Bulfinch 334, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: eshenoy@mgh.harvard.edu.
David J WeberDivision of Infectious Disease, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Bioinformatics Building, Suite 2163, Campus Box 7030, 130 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7030, USA; Department of Hospital Epidemiology, UNC Medical Center, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Massachusetts General Hospital · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An effective occupational health program is a key aspect of preventing exposure to infectious agents and subsequent infection, as well as evaluation and management of postexposure prophylaxis and infections in health care personnel (HCP) by educating HCP regarding proper handling of sharps, early identification and isolation of potentially infectious patients, implementation of standard and transmission-based precautions, and offering counseling of HCP regarding nonroutine prophylaxis. Occupational health services (OHS) must also apply standardized processes for determining when exposures have occurred and providing appropriate management, and provide immediate availability of a medical evaluation following a nonprotected exposure to an infectious disease.

Indexed as

Health PersonnelInfection ControlPre-Exposure ProphylaxisDelivery of Health CareHumansImmunizationInfectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-ProfessionalOccupational HealthVaccinesVaccinesHealth care personnelImmunizationOccupational healthPreexposure prophylaxisVaccines

Identifiers

PMID34362540
PMCPMC8331250
OpenAlexW3191457291

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.