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ArticleIntensive care medicine2013

Procalcitonin kinetics: a reliable tool for diagnosis and monitoring of the course of bacterial infection in critically ill patients with autoimmune diseases.

Yan Shi, Xi Rui

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Article in Intensive care medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing 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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Yan ShiDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, #1 Shuai Fu Yuan Wang Fujing Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100730, China, pumchshi@sina.com.
Xi Rui

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Critical IllnessAgedAged, 80 and overAutoimmune DiseasesBacterial InfectionsBiomarkersCalcitoninCalcitonin Gene-Related PeptideFemaleHumansIntensive Care UnitsKineticsMaleMiddle AgedProtein PrecursorsROC CurveBiomarkersCALCA protein, humanCalcitoninCalcitonin Gene-Related PeptideProtein Precursors

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