Intervention Review

Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses

  1. Tom Jefferson1,*,
  2. Chris B Del Mar2,
  3. Liz Dooley2,
  4. Eliana Ferroni3,
  5. Lubna A Al-Ansary4,
  6. Ghada A Bawazeer5,
  7. Mieke L van Driel2,6,
  8. Sreekumaran Nair7,
  9. Mark A Jones8,
  10. Sarah Thorning2,
  11. John M Conly9,10

Editorial Group: Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections Group

Published Online: 6 JUL 2011

Assessed as up-to-date: 21 OCT 2010

DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub4

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Jefferson T, Del Mar CB, Dooley L, Ferroni E, Al-Ansary LA, Bawazeer GA, van Driel ML, Nair S, Jones MA, Thorning S, Conly JM. Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2011, Issue 7. Art. No.: CD006207. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub4.

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  1. 1

    The Cochrane Collaboration, Roma, Italy

  2. 2

    Bond University, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

  3. 3

    Public Health Agency of Lazio Region, Infectious Diseases Unit, Rome, Italy

  4. 4

    College of Medicine, King Saud University, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Holder of "Shaikh Abdullah S. Bahamdan" Research Chair for Evidence-Based Health Care and Knowledge Translation, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  5. 5

    King Saud University, Department of Clinical Pharmacy & KKUH, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  6. 6

    Ghent University, Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, Ghent, Belgium

  7. 7

    Manipal University, Department of Statistics, Manipal, Karnataka, India

  8. 8

    Centre for Healthcare Related Infection Surveillance and Prevention/School of Population Health, Queensland Health/University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

  9. 9

    Foothills Medical Centre, Room 930, North Tower, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  10. 10

    WHO. Infection Prevention and Control in Health Care, Department of Global Alert and Response - Health Security and Environment, Geneva, Switzerland

*Tom Jefferson, The Cochrane Collaboration, Via Puglie 23, Roma, 00187, Italy. jefferson.tom@gmail.com. jefferson@assr.it.

Publication History

  1. Publication Status: New search for studies and content updated (no change to conclusions)
  2. Published Online: 6 JUL 2011

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    Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses

    Tom Jefferson, Chris B Del Mar, Liz Dooley, Eliana Ferroni, Lubna A Al-Ansary, Ghada A Bawazeer, Mieke L van Driel, Sreekumaran Nair, Mark A Jones, Sarah Thorning and John M Conly

    Article first published online: 6 JUL 2011 | DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub4

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    Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses

    Tom Jefferson, Chris Del Mar, Liz Dooley, Eliana Ferroni, Lubna A Al-Ansary, Ghada A Bawazeer, Mieke L van Driel, Sreekumaran Nair, Ruth Foxlee and Alessandro Rivetti

    Article first published online: 17 FEB 2010 | DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub3

  2. Version 2

    Interventions for the interruption or reduction of the spread of respiratory viruses

    Tom Jefferson, Ruth Foxlee, Chris Del Mar, Liz Dooley, Eliana Ferroni, Bill Hewak, Adi Prabhala, Sreekumaran Nair and Alessandro Rivetti

    Article first published online: 7 OCT 2009 | DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub2

  3. Version 1

    Interventions for the interruption or reduction of the spread of respiratory viruses

    T Jefferson, R Foxlee, C Del Mar, L Dooley, E Ferroni, B Hewak and A Prabhala

    Article first published online: 18 JUL 2007 | DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006207

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