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ReviewLancet regional health. Americas2025

Ensuring respiratory protection to improve population health, economic vitality, and national security.

Stephanie M Holm, Kristin J Cummings, Sundaresan Jayaraman, Shawn G Gibbs

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Review in Lancet regional health. Americas, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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.

Stephanie M HolmStephanie Holm Consulting, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Kristin J CummingsOccupational Health Branch, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA, USA.
Sundaresan JayaramanSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0295, USA.
Shawn G GibbsTexas A&M University School of Public Health, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Respiratory protection decreases the risk of inhalation-related illnesses, but only if such protection is available, with a robust framework in place to support it. There are many current and potential inhalational hazards, and without adequate respiratory protection, these threaten not only health, but also economic prosperity and national security. The United States needs to build off existing expertise to implement a framework for respiratory protection of the entire populace. A recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Report laid out detailed recommendations for such a framework, and there are steps that can be taken now. Starting such a framework in the most cost-effective and efficient way possible requires preserving the existing expertise, experience, and infrastructure in NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) and the National Personal Protective Technologies Laboratory.

Indexed as

Environmental medicineNIOSHOccupational medicinePollutionRespiratorsRespiratory protection

Identifiers

PMID41141569
PMCPMC12550576

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