When is "abnormal" abnormal? Dealing with the slightly out of range laboratory result.

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.

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.

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Prevalence, impact and associated factors of abnormal preoperative investigation result in patients undergoing surgery in Dilla University referral hospital: cross-sectional study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2024
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2. Thrombocytosis and abnormal liver enzymes: A trigger for investigation of underlying malignancy.PloS one · 2022
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3. Personalized lab test models to quantify disease potentials in healthy individuals.Nature medicine · 2021
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4. Presentation of laboratory test results in patient portals: influence of interface design on risk interpretation and visual search behaviour.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2018
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Corrections and comments

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

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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