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ArticleThe Journal of hospital infection2021

The early test catches the case. Why wait? Frequent testing of close contacts aids COVID-19 control.

J Walsh, M Skally, F Duffy, G Kalukondanahally, B Dinesh, K O'Connell, E de Barra, K Burns, F Fitzpatrick

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Article in The Journal of hospital infection, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Short-Term Use Biocontainment Bubbles: Innovative Source Containment of Potentially Infectious SARS-CoV-2 Aerosols.Applied biosafety : journal of the American Biological Safety Association · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

J WalshDepartment of Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. Electronic address: Jenniferwalsh41@gmail.com.
M SkallyDepartment of Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
F DuffyDepartment of Infection Prevention and Control, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
G KalukondanahallyDepartment of Infection Prevention and Control, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
B DineshDepartment of Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
K O'ConnellDepartment of Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
E de BarraDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; Department of International Health and Tropical Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Ireland.
K BurnsDepartment of Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
F FitzpatrickDepartment of Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; Department of Clinical Microbiology, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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COVID-19Contact TracingCOVID-19 TestingHumansSARS-CoV-2

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PMID34403764
PMCPMC8364144

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