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ArticleThe Cochrane database of systematic reviews2025

Effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 testing strategies.

K M Saif-Ur-Rahman, Nadra Nurdin, Ani Movsisyan, Kavita Kothari, Thomas Conway, Marie Tierney, Petek Eylul Taneri, Deirdre Mulholland, Andrea C Tricco, Jacqueline Dinnes and 1 more

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Article in The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
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, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 testing strategies: A scoping review.Cochrane evidence synthesis and methods · 2023
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

K M Saif-Ur-RahmanEvidence Synthesis Ireland and Cochrane Ireland, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.
Nadra NurdinRoyal College of Physicians, Dublin, Ireland.
Ani MovsisyanPettenkofer School of Public Health, Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany.
Kavita KothariConsultant to Library & Digital Information Networks, World Health Organization, Kobe, Japan.
Thomas ConwayEvidence Synthesis Ireland and Cochrane Ireland, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.
Marie TierneyEvidence Synthesis Ireland and Cochrane Ireland, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.
Petek Eylul TaneriEvidence Synthesis Ireland and Cochrane Ireland, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.
Deirdre MulhollandPublic Health, Health Service Executive, Dublin, Ireland.
Andrea C TriccoLi Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Jacqueline DinnesBiostatistics, Evidence Synthesis, Test Evaluation and Modelling, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Declan DevaneEvidence Synthesis Ireland and Cochrane Ireland, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesThis is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: To assess the effectiveness of different SARS-CoV-2 testing strategies in reducing COVID-19 cases, hospitalisations, and deaths among suspected cases and asymptomatic individuals.

Indexed as

COVID-19COVID-19 TestingAsymptomatic InfectionsHospitalizationHumansRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID39991854
PMCPMC11848964

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