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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2023

Unpacking Cochrane's Update on Masks and COVID-19.

Brian M Gurbaxani, Andrew N Hill, Pragna Patel

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Article in American journal of public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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

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  6. Unpacked Cochrane Review on Masks: A Further Look.American journal of public health · 2024
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  7. Gurbaxani et al. Respond.American journal of public health · 2024
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  8. COVID-19: did the masks work?Future microbiology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Brian M GurbaxaniBrian M. Gurbaxani and Pragna Patel are with the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA. Brian M. Gurbaxani is also with the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Andrew N. Hill is with the Global Health Center, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, CDC, and the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Department, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. Pragna Patel is also with the Department of Medicine, Emory University.
Andrew N HillBrian M. Gurbaxani and Pragna Patel are with the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA. Brian M. Gurbaxani is also with the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Andrew N. Hill is with the Global Health Center, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, CDC, and the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Department, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. Pragna Patel is also with the Department of Medicine, Emory University.
Pragna PatelBrian M. Gurbaxani and Pragna Patel are with the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA. Brian M. Gurbaxani is also with the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Andrew N. Hill is with the Global Health Center, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, CDC, and the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Department, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. Pragna Patel is also with the Department of Medicine, Emory University.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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COVID-19MasksHumans

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PMID37672741
PMCPMC10484132

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