Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34422705›Full record

ArticleGerms2021

Barriers to disinfection of mobile touch screen devices amongst a multidisciplinary team in intensive care units at a tertiary hospital.

Christoffel J Opperman, Farheen Khan, Jenna L Piercy, Nazlee Samodien

Abstract read
In one paragraph

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

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers 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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

4 authors.

Christoffel J OppermanBScHons (Microbiology), MBChB (Stellenbosch), Division of Medical Microbiology, National Health Laboratory Service, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Main Road, Observatory, 7925, Cape Town, South Africa.
Farheen KhanFaculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Main Road, Observatory, 7925, Cape Town, South Africa.
Jenna L PiercyBScHons, MBBS (Lond), FCA (SA), Cert Crit Care (SA), Division of Critical Care, Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, University of Cape Town, Main Road, Observatory, 7925, Cape Town, South Africa.
Nazlee SamodienMBChB (Wits); FCPath (Microbiol), Division of Medical Microbiology, National Health Laboratory Service, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Main Road, Observatory, 7925, Cape Town, South Africa.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

disinfectioninfection prevention and controlintensive care unitMobile touch screen devicesmartphonetablet

Identifiers

PMID34422705
PMCPMC8373418

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Registered trials

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