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Podcast: How accurate are rapid tests for diagnosing COVID-19?

Several COVID-19 reviews relate to diagnosis. One of these, on the use of rapid point-of-care tests was updated in March 2021. Lead author Jacqueline Dinnes from the University of Birmingham in the UK tells us what they found for antigen tests.

Update (24 Mar 2021): Rapid, point‐of‐care antigen and molecular‐based tests for diagnosis of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection

This is a review update of the original version (published 26 August 2020). The authors now include 64 study reports in 78 study cohorts, evaluating 16 antigen and 5 molecular assays.

Cochrane Systematic Review: UPDATE

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Agricultural and nutritional education interventions for reducing aflatoxin exposure to improve infant and child growth in low‐ and middle‐income countries

Assessing the effects on pre‐ and postnatal growth outcomes when agricultural and nutritional education interventions during the post‐harvest period that aim to reduce aflatoxin exposure are compared to usual support or no intervention.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

Podcast:How effective is quarantine alone or combined with other public health measures to control coronavirus (COVID-2019)?

In this podcast, lead author, Barbara Nussbaumer-Streit from Danube University Krems in Austria outlines the findings of the effectiveness of quarantine.

Quarantine alone or in combination with other public health measures to control COVID‐19: a rapid review

To support WHO for their recommendations on quarantine, a rapid review was conducted on the effectiveness of quarantine during serious coronavirus outbreaks.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

Health workers' perceptions and experiences of using mHealth technologies to deliver primary healthcare services: a qualitative evidence synthesis

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

Death audits and reviews for reducing maternal, perinatal and child mortality

Assessing the impact and cost‐effectiveness of different types of death audits and reviews in reducing maternal, perinatal and child mortality.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

Covid-19: six million doses of hydroxychloroquine donated to US despite lack of evidence

Director of READ-IT & CIDG Co-ordinating Editor, Paul Garner, is quoted in the recent BMJ article (published 23 March 2020)

Diagnosing tuberculosis,Cochrane Special Collections

Tuberculosis causes more deaths globally than any other infectious disease and is a top 10 cause of death worldwide.

Peer-reviewed article

Improving vaccination uptake among adolescents

Evaluating the effects of interventions to improve vaccine uptake among adolescents.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

The TRANSFER Approach for assessing the transferability of systematic review findings

This paper describes the TRANSFER Approach, a novel approach for supporting collaboration between review authors and stakeholders from the beginning of the review process to systematically and transparently consider factors that may influence the transferability of systematic review findings.

Peer-reviewed article

Topical and device‐based treatments for fungal infections of the toenails

Assess the clinical and mycological effects of topical drugs and device‐based therapies for onychomycosis.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

Caregiver involvement in interventions for improving children's dietary intake and physical activity behaviors

To assess effects of caregiver involvement in interventions for improving children's dietary intake and physical activity behaviors, including those intended to prevent overweight and obesity

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

Development of mass media resources to improve the ability of parents of primary school children in Uganda to assess the trustworthiness of claims about the effects of treatments: a human-centred design approach

Our objective was to design mass media resources to enable the public to critically appraise the trustworthiness of claims about the benefits and harms of treatments and make informed health choices.

Peer-reviewed article

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