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ArticleIntensive care medicine2016

Escalation of therapy without evidence: a "may" does not imply a "should"!

M Heringlake, B Bein, M Buerke, D Damjanovic, H Ebelt, H V Groesdonk, A Markewitz, M Möckel, R Moosdorf, K Pilarczyk and 9 more

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Article in Intensive care medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. [Organ assist devices in the future : Limits and perspectives].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors.

M HeringlakeDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538, Lübeck, Germany. heringlake@t-online.de.
B BeinDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, St. Georg Hospital, Lohmühlenstr. 5, 20099, Hamburg, Germany.
M BuerkeDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology, and Medical Intensive Care Medicine, St. Marien Hospital, Kampenstr. 51, 57072, Siegen, Germany.
D DamjanovicDepartment of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, 79106, Freiburg, Germany.
H EbeltDepartment of Cardiology, Catholic "St. Johann Nepomuk" Hospital, Haarbergstrasse 72, 99097, Erfurt, Germany.
H V GroesdonkDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Saarland University Medical Center, Kirrberger Straße, 66424, Homburg, Germany.
A MarkewitzDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, German Armed Forces Central Hospital, Rübenacher Str. 170, 56072, Koblenz, Germany.
M MöckelDivision of Emergency Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117, Berlin, Germany.
R MoosdorfDepartment of Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Gießen and Marburg, Campus Marburg, Baldingerstrasse, 35043, Marburg, Germany.
K PilarczykDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, Imland Hospital Rendsburg, Lilienstraße 20-28, 24768, Rendsburg, Germany.
D A ReuterDepartment of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany.
M SanderDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Gießen and Marburg, Campus Gießen, Rudolf-Buchheim Str. 7, 35392, Giessen, Germany.
A SchmittDepartment of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Heart Center Saar, Richardstr. 5-9, 66333, Völklingen, Germany.
G TrummerDepartment of Cardiovascular and Vascular Surgery, Heart Center University Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, 79106, Freiburg, Germany.
S TreskatschDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Charité University Hospital, Charité Campus Mitte and Virchow Klinikum, Charité-Platz 1, 10117, Berlin, Germany.
M Von der BrelieDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, Imland Hospital Rendsburg, Lilienstraße 20-28, 24768, Rendsburg, Germany.
B ZanteDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Murtenstrasse 10, 3010, Bern, Switzerland.
A ZarbockDepartment of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University Hospital Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1, 48149, Münster, Germany.
N HaakeDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, Imland Hospital Rendsburg, Lilienstraße 20-28, 24768, Rendsburg, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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