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ReviewFrontiers in digital health2021

Data and Digital Solutions to Support Surveillance Strategies in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Patty Kostkova, Francesc Saigí-Rubió, Hans Eguia, Damian Borbolla, Marieke Verschuuren, Clayton Hamilton, Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, David Novillo-Ortiz

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Review in Frontiers in digital health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
32citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

32 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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

8 authors.

Patty KostkovaUCL Centre for Digital Public Health in Emergencies (dPHE), Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Francesc Saigí-RubióFaculty of Health Sciences, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
Hans EguiaFaculty of Health Sciences, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
Damian BorbollaDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.
Marieke VerschuurenDivision of Country Health Policies and Systems, Regional Office for Europe, World Health Organization, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Clayton HamiltonDivision of Country Health Policies and Systems, Regional Office for Europe, World Health Organization, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Natasha Azzopardi-MuscatDivision of Country Health Policies and Systems, Regional Office for Europe, World Health Organization, Copenhagen, Denmark.
David Novillo-OrtizDivision of Country Health Policies and Systems, Regional Office for Europe, World Health Organization, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19data sourcesdigital epidemiologydigital surveillanceoutbreak

Identifiers

PMID34713179
PMCPMC8522016

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Registered trials

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