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ArticleCritical care (London, England)2011

Give or take? Intravenous immunoglobulin or plasma exchange for Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Richard A C Hughes

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Article in Critical care (London, England), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 33% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Richard A C HughesCochrane Neuromuscular Disease Group, MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Disease, PO Box 114, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, 8-11 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK. rhughes11@btinternet.com
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A new randomised controlled trial suggested that plasma exchange hastened removal from the ventilator in mechanically ventilated children with Guillain-Barré syndrome compared with intravenous immunoglobulin. Two larger trials in adults showed the opposite result.

Indexed as

Guillain-Barre SyndromePlasma ExchangeRespiration, ArtificialHumansImmunoglobulins, IntravenousImmunoglobulins, Intravenous

Identifiers

PMID21888680
PMCPMC3387608
OpenAlexW2163718397

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