Objective Previous meta‐analyses concluded that there was insufficient evidence to
determine the effect of N95 respirators. We aimed to assess the effectiveness of N95 …

Importance Clinical studies have been inconclusive about the effectiveness of N95
respirators and medical masks in preventing health care personnel (HCP) from acquiring …

Context Data about the effectiveness of the surgical mask compared with the N95 respirator
for protecting health care workers against influenza are sparse. Given the likelihood that …

Background: Conflicting recommendations exist related to which facial protection should be
used by health care workers to prevent transmission of acute respiratory infections, including …

Objective: The successful management of an influenza pandemic will be reliant on the
expertise of healthcare workers at high risk for occupationally acquired influenza …

Background Respiratory protective devices are critical in protecting against infection in
healthcare workers at high risk of novel 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID‐19); however …

Please cite this paper as: MacIntyre et al.(2011) A cluster randomized clinical trial comparing
fit‐tested and non‐fit‐tested N95 respirators to medical masks to prevent respiratory virus …

Background Recently, several randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have evaluated the effect
of N95 respirators compared with medical masks to protect against acute respiratory …

Objective We aimed to examine the efficacy of medical masks and respirators in protecting
against respiratory infections using pooled data from two homogenous randomised control …

Please cite this paper as: bin‐Reza et al.(2012) The use of masks and respirators to prevent
transmission of influenza: a systematic review of the scientific evidence. Influenza and Other …