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ArticleCritical care (London, England)2015

Faulty risk-of-bias assessment in a meta-analysis of hydroxyethyl starch for non-septic ICU patients: a rebuttal.

Michael James, Ivan Joubert, William Lance Michell, Andrew Nicol, Pradeep Navsaria, Rencia Gillespie

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Article in Critical care (London, England), 2015. 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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0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 33% 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

0 citing papers in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michael JamesDepartment of Anaesthesia, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Anzio Road, Cape Town, Western Cape, 7925, South Africa. mike.james@uct.ac.za.
Ivan JoubertDivision of Critical Care and Department of Anaesthesia, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
William Lance MichellDivision of Critical Care and Department of Surgery, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Anzio Road, Cape Town, Western Cape, 7925, South Africa.
Andrew NicolTrauma Unit, Division of General Surgery, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Anzio Road, Cape Town, Western Cape, 7925, South Africa.
Pradeep NavsariaTrauma Unit, Division of General Surgery, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Anzio Road, Cape Town, Western Cape, 7925, South Africa.
Rencia GillespieDepartment of Anaesthesia, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Anzio Road, Cape Town, Western Cape, 7925, South Africa.
Groote Schuur Hospital · ZAUniversity of Cape Town · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Fluid TherapyHumansHydroxyethyl Starch DerivativesPlasma SubstitutesHydroxyethyl Starch DerivativesPlasma Substitutes

Identifiers

PMID26699365
PMCPMC4699340
OpenAlexW2220391095

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