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ArticleThorax2014

Exacerbations in non-COPD patients: truth or myth--authors' response.

Wan C Tan, Jean Bourbeau, Shawn Aaron, J Mark FitzGerald, Paul Hernandez, Robert Cowie, Kenneth R Chapman, Darcy Marciniuk, Francois Maltais, Sonia Buist and 3 more

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Article in Thorax, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Wan C TanUBC James Hogg Research Center, University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Jean BourbeauMcGill University, Respiratory, Montreal Chest Institute, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
Shawn AaronOttawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
J Mark FitzGeraldDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0419-7862
Paul HernandezDepartment of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Robert CowieDepartments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Kenneth R ChapmanDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Darcy MarciniukDivision of Respirology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Francois MaltaisCentre de Pneumologie de l'hôpital Laval, Quebec City, Québec, Canada.
Sonia BuistOregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Denis O'DonnellDivision of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Don D SinUBC James Hogg Research Center, University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
CanCOLD Collaborative Research Group

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research 93326
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Airway ObstructionAsthmaBronchitisFemaleHumansMalePulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveClinical Epidemiology

Identifiers

PMID24996635

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