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ArticleThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2011

Pulse oximetry in primary care: primary care diagnostic technology update.

Annette Plüddemann, Matthew Thompson, Carl Heneghan, Christopher Price

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Article in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  11. Wearable Photoplethysmography for Cardiovascular Monitoring.Proceedings of the IEEE. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · 2022
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  13. Utility of Pulse Oximetry Oxygen Saturation (SpOCritical care research and practice · 2022
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  14. Influence of cuff pressures of automatic sphygmomanometers on pulse oximetry measurements.Measurement : journal of the International Measurement Confederation · 2022
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  20. Drop in lung function during asthma and COPD exacerbations - can it be assessed without spirometry?International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Annette PlüddemannHorizon Scanning Programme, Cumbria and Lancashire Pathology Commissioning Network, Oxford, UK. annette.pluddeman@phc.ox.ac.uk
Matthew Thompson
Carl Heneghan
Christopher Price

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

General PracticeOximetryPhysician's RoleHumansLung DiseasesPractice Guidelines as Topic

Identifiers

PMID21619771
PMCPMC3080222

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