Face masks to prevent transmission of respiratory infections: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials on face mask use

• Hanna M. Ollila ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hanna.m.ollila@helsinki.fi

  Affiliations Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5302-6429

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• Markku Partinen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Helsinki Sleep Clinic, Terveystalo Healthcare, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Clinicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• Jukka Koskela,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Helsinki University and Helsinki University Hospital, Clinic of Gastroenterology Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• John Borghi,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Lane Medical Library, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9570-4163

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• Riikka Savolainen,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom

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• Anna Rotkirch,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Population Research Institute, Väestöliitto, The Family Federation of Finland, Helsinki, Finland

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• Liisa T. Laine

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America

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