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ArticleJournal of travel medicine2021

Are rapid antigen SARS-Cov-2 tests effective for mass screening of travelers at airports? The Olympic experience.

Jaime R Torres

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Article in Journal of travel medicine, 2021. 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.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

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

  1. Investigation of the diagnostic performance of the SARS-CoV-2 saliva antigen test: A meta-analysis.Journal of microbiology, immunology, and infection = Wei mian yu gan ran za zhi · 2022
    Pooled it
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  4. COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Tests: Bibliometric Analysis of the Scientific Literature.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Jaime R TorresInfectious Diseases Section, Tropical Medicine Institute, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas 1053, Venezuela.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19SARS-CoV-2AirportsHumansMass ScreeningTravelairportsantigen testingpoint of entrysalivaSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID34480181
PMCPMC8499903

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Registered trials

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