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ArticleThe American journal of emergency medicine2015

Tranexamic acid in brain injury: devil in the detail.

Shahriar Zehtabchi, Samah G Abdel Baki, Louise Falzon, Daniel K Nishijima

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Article in The American journal of emergency medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 40% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. The effect of tranexamic acid in traumatic brain injury: A randomized controlled trial.Chinese journal of traumatology = Zhonghua chuang shang za zhi · 2017
    Trial
  3. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Shahriar ZehtabchiDepartment of Emergency Medicine, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY. Electronic address: Shahriar.zehtabchi@downstate.edu.
Samah G Abdel BakiDepartment of Emergency Medicine, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY. Electronic address: samahabdulbaki@gmail.com.
Louise FalzonCenter for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Department of Medicine, Columbia, University Medical Center, New York, NY. Electronic address: af2215@cumc.columbia.edu.
Daniel K NishijimaDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA. Electronic address: daniel.nishijima@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu.
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University · USColumbia University Irving Medical Center · USUniversity of California Davis Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Antifibrinolytic AgentsBrain InjuriesHumansTranexamic AcidAntifibrinolytic AgentsTranexamic Acid

Identifiers

PMID25600234
OpenAlexW2156234134

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.