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ArticleAnnals of internal medicine2017

Making the Most of Simplified Sleep Apnea Testing.

Lucas M Donovan, Sanjay R Patel

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Article in Annals of internal medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. Obstructive sleep apnea: current perspectives.Nature and science of sleep · 2018
    Review
  5. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Lucas M DonovanFrom University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, and University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Sanjay R PatelFrom University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, and University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Funding

RESPIRATORY RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAMT32HL007287 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Kristina Anne Crothers, David J. Horne · 1985 to 2026
$16.7M
Mentored Patient Oriented Research in Sleep and Metabolic DiseaseK24HL127307 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI PATEL, SANJAY R · 2015 to 2019
$582k
NHLBI NIH HHS K24 HL127307NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007287
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

MedicineSleep Apnea, ObstructiveSleep Apnea SyndromesDecision MakingHumansPolysomnography

Identifiers

PMID28114686
PMCPMC5459380

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