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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2021

The Performance of Two Rapid Antigen Tests During Population-Level Screening for SARS-CoV-2 Infection.

Mohammad Alghounaim, Hamad Bastaki, Farah Bin Essa, Hoda Motlagh, Salman Al-Sabah

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Rapid, point-of-care antigen tests for diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025
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  2. The Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines on the Diagnosis of COVID-19: Antigen Testing (January 2023).Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2024
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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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mohammad AlghounaimDepartment of Pediatrics, Amiri Hospital, Ministry of Health, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
Hamad BastakiDepartment of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
Farah Bin EssaDepartment of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
Hoda MotlaghCOVID-19 Research Team, Jaber Alahmad Hospital, Ministry of Health, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
Salman Al-SabahCOVID-19 Research Team, Jaber Alahmad Hospital, Ministry of Health, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
Ministry of Health · KWAmiri Hospital · KW

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

antigen testCOVID-19immunoassaypopulation surveillanceSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID35004772
PMCPMC8733308
OpenAlexW4200109751

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Registered trials

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