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ArticleCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2017

Sudden sensorineural hearing loss.

Christopher Joseph Chin, Kathryn Dorman

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Article in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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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. Association between remnant cholesterol and short-term hearing outcomes in sudden sensorineural hearing loss.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Christopher Joseph ChinDivision of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (Chin), Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, NB; Department of Family and Community Medicine (Dorman), St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. Christopher.Chin@Dal.ca.
Kathryn DormanDivision of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (Chin), Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, NB; Department of Family and Community Medicine (Dorman), St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Administration, OralAdultAudiometryDiagnosis, DifferentialFemaleGlucocorticoidsHearing Loss, SensorineuralHearing Loss, SuddenHumansInjection, IntratympanicMagnetic Resonance ImagingNeuroma, AcousticOtolaryngologyPrednisoneReferral and ConsultationSeverity of Illness IndexGlucocorticoidsPrednisone

Identifiers

PMID28385715
PMCPMC5359093

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