Clinical Reasoning: An 87-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and acute encephalopathy.

Kristyn Spera, Daniel Rubin, Tina Gupta, Tadeu Fantaneanu, Galen V Henderson

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Article in Neurology, 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.

Epidemiology of Dementia in Elderly Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients Living in China's Northwestern High-Elevation Area.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Kristyn SperaFrom the Department of Neurology (K.S., D.R.), Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School; and Departments of Endocrinology (T.G.) and Neurology (T.F., G.V.H.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA. kspera@partners.org.

Daniel RubinFrom the Department of Neurology (K.S., D.R.), Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School; and Departments of Endocrinology (T.G.) and Neurology (T.F., G.V.H.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.

Tina GuptaFrom the Department of Neurology (K.S., D.R.), Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School; and Departments of Endocrinology (T.G.) and Neurology (T.F., G.V.H.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.

Tadeu FantaneanuFrom the Department of Neurology (K.S., D.R.), Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School; and Departments of Endocrinology (T.G.) and Neurology (T.F., G.V.H.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.

Galen V HendersonFrom the Department of Neurology (K.S., D.R.), Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School; and Departments of Endocrinology (T.G.) and Neurology (T.F., G.V.H.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.

Funding

TRAINING PROGRAM IN HYPERTENSIONT32HL007609 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI ADLER, GAIL KURR · 1985 to 2022

$10.2M

NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007609

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Pulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveAcute DiseaseAdrenal InsufficiencyAged, 80 and overBrain DiseasesClinical Decision-MakingDiagnosis, DifferentialHumansMale

Identifiers

PMID27672171

DOI10.1212/WNL.0000000000003149

PMCPMC5573193

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