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ReviewCritical care (London, England)2006

Is it time for implementation of tight glycaemia control by intensive insulin therapy in every ICU?

Philippe Devos, Jean-Charles Preiser

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Review in Critical care (London, England), 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Recent progress in mechanical artificial pancreas.Journal of artificial organs : the official journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Organs · 2009
    Review
  5. Current status of tight blood sugar control.Current infectious disease reports · 2008
    Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Philippe DevosDepartment of General Intensive Care, University Hospital Centre, University of Liege, Domaine universitaire du Sart-Tilman, B-4000 Liege, Belgium.
Jean-Charles Preiser
University of Liège · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The second study on tight glycaemia control by intensive insulin therapy (IIT) confirmed in medical intensive care unit patients the decrease in hospital mortality reported by the same team in the first IIT trial in surgical patients. However, methodological concerns, the high rate of hypoglycaemia in spite of the infusion of large doses of parenteral glucose and the frequent use of steroids presently preclude considering these results as recommendations in other intensive care units, but rather argue for the need for large-scale assessment of the IIT approach by multi-centre studies to confirm the efficacy and safety of this therapeutic modality.

Indexed as

Intensive Care UnitsBlood GlucoseGlycemic IndexHumansHypoglycemic AgentsInsulinBlood GlucoseHypoglycemic AgentsInsulin

Identifiers

PMID16569259
PMCPMC1550900
OpenAlexW1536553516

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