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ReviewMedical review (2021)2022

Mass screening is a key component to fight against SARS-CoV-2 and return to normalcy.

Zhaomin Feng, Yi Zhang, Yang Pan, Daitao Zhang, Lei Zhang, Quanyi Wang

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Review in Medical review (2021), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Exploring the Challenges of Hypertension Mass Screening Programs: A Scoping Literature Review.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2026
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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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Zhaomin FengBeijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing, China.
Yi ZhangBeijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing, China.
Yang PanBeijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing, China.
Daitao ZhangBeijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing, China.
Lei ZhangQueensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Quanyi WangBeijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9552-2503
Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control · CNQueensland University of Technology · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) had highly transmissible and pathogenic, which caused serious economic loss and hazard to public health. Different countries have developed strategies to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic that fit their epidemiological situations, capacities, and values. Mass screening combined with control measures rapidly reduced the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 infection. The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically highlighted the essential role of diagnostics capacity in the control of communicable diseases. Mass screening has been increasingly used to detect suspected COVID-19 cases and their close contacts, asymptomatic case, patients attending fever clinics, high-risk populations, employees, even all population to identify infectious individuals. Mass screening is a key component to fight against SARS-CoV-2 and return to normalcy. Here we describe the history of mass screening, define the scope of mass screening, describe its application scenarios, and discuss the impact and challenges of using this approach to control COVID-19. We conclude that through a comprehension screening program and strong testing capabilities, mass screening could help us return to normalcy more quickly.

Indexed as

close contactsdiagnostics capacitymass screeningSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID35862506
PMCPMC9274759
OpenAlexW4224984581

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Registered trials

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