Evidence map›Paper›PMID 36167919›Full record

ArticleSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2023

Safety of International Professional Sports Competitions During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Association Football Experience.

Horacio Caniza, Francisco Forriol, Osvaldo Pangrazio, Mario Gil-Conesa

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Article in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2023. 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
1.8field-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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Horacio Caniza *Universidad Paraguayo Alemana, San Lorenzo, Paraguay. horacio.caniza@upa.edu.py.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5116-4943
Francisco Forriol *Universidad San Pablo-CEU, Madrid, Spain.
Osvaldo PangrazioCONMEBOL Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol, Luque, Paraguay.
Mario Gil-ConesaUniversidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
Universidad Columbia del Paraguay · PYUniversidad de Navarra · ESUniversidad San Pablo CEU · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Major sporting events were suspended during the most acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Competitions are resuming with enhanced hygiene protocols and altered mechanics. While risks for players and staff have been studied, the impact of large-scale tournaments on the communities that host them remains largely unstudied. CONMEBOL Copa América is one of the first wide-scale international tournaments to be conducted in its original format since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tournament saw 10 national teams compete in four Brazilian cities during a period of heightened viral transmission. The analysis of over 28,000 compulsory PCR tests showed that positive cases did not lead to the uncontrolled spread of the disease among staff and players. More importantly, the data indicate that locally hired staff were not exposed to increased risk while working. The Copa América experience shows that international sporting competitions can be conducted safely even under unfavourable epidemiological situations.

Indexed as

COVID-19FootballSoccerHumansPandemics

Identifiers

PMID36167919
PMCPMC9514706
OpenAlexW4297338421

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Registered trials

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