Health Technology Assessment 2010; Vol. 14: No. 34, 347–476 © 2010 Queen’s Printer and Controller of HMSO. All rights reserved. 347 DOI: 10.3310/hta14340-06 Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses: a Cochrane review T Jefferson, 1 * C Del Mar, 2 L Dooley, 2 E Ferroni, 3 LA Al-Ansary, 4 GA Bawazeer, 5 ML van Driel, 2 S Nair, 6 R Foxlee 7 and A Rivetti 8 1 Vaccines Field, The Cochrane Collaboration, Roma, Italy 2 Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia 3 Infectious Diseases Unit, Public Health Agency of Lazio Region, Rome, Italy 4 Department of Family & Community Medicine, Holder of “Shaikh Abdullah S. Bahamdan” Research Chair for Evidence-Based Health Care and Knowledge Translation, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 5 Department of Clinical Pharmacy & KKUH, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 6 Department of Statistics, Manipal University, Manipal, India 7 Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK 8 Servizio Regionale di Riferimento per l’Epidemiologia, SSEpi – SeREMI – Cochrane Vaccines Field, Azienda, Sanitaria Locale ASL AL, Alessandria, Italy *Corresponding author Declared competing interests of authors: C Del Mar has accepted on behalf of his university for expert advice for GSK in an unrelated area (vaccination for otitis media). DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub2 This article is a version of a Cochrane Review published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2007, Issue 4. Cochrane Reviews are regularly updated as new evidence emerges and in response to comments and criticisms. Jefferson T, Del Mar C, Dooley L, Ferroni E, Al-Ansary LA, Bawazeer GA, van Driel ML, Nair S, Foxlee R, Rivetti A. Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2007, Issue 4. Art. No.: CD006207. DOI: 10.1002/14651858. CD006207.pub2 should be consulted for the most recent version of the review. 347