Steps for the implementation and validation of tight glucose control.

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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

1. A prospective randomised multi-centre controlled trial on tight glucose control by intensive insulin therapy in adult intensive care units: the Glucontrol study.Intensive care medicine · 2009
   Trial
2. Strict versus moderate glucose control after resuscitation from ventricular fibrillation.Intensive care medicine · 2007
   Trial
3. Current state of glycemic control in critically ill subjects in a general intensive care unit.International journal of general medicine · 2012
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4. All things considered-including glucose control in the ICU.Current hypertension reports · 2009
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5. An overview of hypoglycemia in the critically ill.Journal of diabetes science and technology · 2009
   Review
6. Current status of tight blood sugar control.Current infectious disease reports · 2008
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7. An analysis: hyperglycemic intensive care patients need continuous glucose monitoring-easier said than done.Journal of diabetes science and technology · 2008
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8. Moving beyond tight glucose control to safe effective glucose control.Critical care (London, England) · 2008
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Introduction and evaluation of a computerised insulin protocol.2007

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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