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ArticlePLoS medicine2017

Major scientific lessons learned in the trauma field over the last two decades.

John B Holcomb

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Article in PLoS medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
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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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. The Joint Trauma System: A critical lifeline facing an uncertain future.The journal of trauma and acute care surgery · 2025
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  6. Article
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  8. 'Combat' Approach to Cardiogenic Shock.Interventional cardiology (London, England) · 2018
    Review
  9. Article
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

1 author.

John B HolcombCenter for Translational Injury Research, Department of Surgery, McGovern Medical School, UT Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6692-1935

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

John B Holcomb summarizes recent conceptual and practical advances in trauma care, in both military and civilian settings, and presents directions for future research.

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Military MedicineUnited StatesWounds and Injuries

Identifiers

PMID28678788
PMCPMC5497952

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