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ReviewCritical care (London, England)2010

Tight glycemic control: what do we really know, and what should we expect?

Stanley A Nasraway, Rishi Rattan

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Review in Critical care (London, England), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Stanley A NasrawayDepartment of Surgery, Tufts Medical Center, 750 Washington Street, Box 4630, Boston, MA 02111, USA. snasraway@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Rishi Rattan

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tight glycemic control has engendered large numbers of investigations, with conflicting results. The world has largely embraced intensive insulin as a practice, but applies this therapy with great variability in the manner of glucose control and measurement. The present commentary reviews what we actually know with certainty from this vast sea of literature, and what we can expect looking forward.

Indexed as

AnimalsBlood GlucoseGlycemic IndexHumansHyperglycemiaHypoglycemiaHypoglycemic AgentsInsulinBlood GlucoseHypoglycemic AgentsInsulin

Identifiers

PMID20875150
PMCPMC3219245

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