COPD, co-morbidities and health-related quality of life (HRQOL): more is less.

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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Challenges to the Application of Integrated, Personalized Care for Patients with COPD-A Vision for the Role of Clinical Information.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020
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2. Association Between Everyday Technology Use, Activities of Daily Living and Health-Related Quality of Life in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2020
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3. Cigarette Smoke Induced Lung Barrier Dysfunction, EMT, and Tissue Remodeling: A Possible Link between COPD and Lung Cancer.BioMed research international · 2019
   Review
4. Effects of cigarette smoke on pulmonary endothelial cells.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2018
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Corrections and comments

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  Impact of co-morbidities on self-rated health in self-reported COPD: an analysis of NHANES 2001-2008.2013

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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