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GuidelineThorax2005

BTS guidelines for the management of pleural infection in children.

I M Balfour-Lynn, E Abrahamson, G Cohen, J Hartley, S King, D Parikh, D Spencer, A H Thomson, D Urquhart, Paediatric Pleural Diseases Subcommittee of the BTS Standards of Care Committee

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In one paragraph

Guideline in Thorax, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 120 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
120citing papers in PubMed, 9 pooled it
17.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

120 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 507 citations in OpenAlex.

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60 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

I M Balfour-LynnConsultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, Syndey St, SW3 6NP London, UK. i.balfourlynn@ic.ac.uk
E Abrahamson
G Cohen
J Hartley
S King
D Parikh
D Spencer
A H Thomson
D Urquhart
Paediatric Pleural Diseases Subcommittee of the BTS Standards of Care Committee
Royal Brompton Hospital · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AnalgesicsAnti-Bacterial AgentsChest TubesChildDevice RemovalDrainageEmpyema, PleuralFibrinolytic AgentsHumansPleural DiseasesPleural EffusionRespiratory Tract InfectionsThoracotomyAnalgesicsAnti-Bacterial AgentsFibrinolytic Agents

Identifiers

PMID15681514
PMCPMC1766040
OpenAlexW2169450182

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.