Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34419200›Full record

ArticleLancet (London, England)2021

Revisiting the evidence for physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection.

Mohamed Abbas, Michihiko Goto, Ermira Tartari, Eli Perencevich, Didier Pittet

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Article in Lancet (London, England), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Mohamed AbbasInfection Control Programme, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, CH-1211, Switzerland; Healthcare Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Michihiko GotoCenter for Access & Delivery Research and Evaluation, Iowa City VA Health Care System, Iowa City, IA, USA; Carver College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
Ermira TartariInstitute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
Eli PerencevichInfection Control Programme, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, CH-1211, Switzerland; Center for Access & Delivery Research and Evaluation, Iowa City VA Health Care System, Iowa City, IA, USA; Carver College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
Didier PittetInfection Control Programme, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, CH-1211, Switzerland. Electronic address: didier.pittet@hcuge.ch.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19MasksHumansPhysical DistancingSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID34419200
PMCPMC8376238

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