Heart rate characteristic monitoring-HeRO or villain?

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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Preoperative Heart Rate Variability and Parasympathetic Modulation in Newborns with Transposition of the Great Arteries Undergoing Arterial Switch Operation.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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2. Preoperative autonomic failure in neonates with critical congenital heart disease.Early human development · 2025
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3. Heart rate characteristic index monitoring for bloodstream infection in an NICU: a 3-year experience.Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition · 2016
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Mortality reduction by heart rate characteristic monitoring in very low birth weight neonates: a randomized trial.2011

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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