A Multispecialty Evaluation of Thiel Cadavers for Surgical Training: Reply.

Marina Yiasemidou, David Roberts, Daniel Glassman, James Tomlinson, Chandra Shekhar Biyani, Danilo Miskovic

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Article in World journal of surgery, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in

3citing 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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

Pneumothorax in a Thiel cadaver model of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.World journal of emergency medicine · 2023
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Anterior Cruciate Ligament Stability in Soft-Embalmed Cadaver vs In vivo Knee: Alternative Approaches to Medical Education.Advances in medical education and practice · 2023
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Modified Larssen solution (MLS)-fixed cadaver model for transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy vestibular approach (TOETVA) education: a feasibility study.Surgical endoscopy · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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A Multispecialty Evaluation of Thiel Cadavers for Surgical Training.2017
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Marina YiasemidouThe John Goligher Academic Surgical Unit, St. James's University Hospital, 7.26 Clinical Sciences Building, Beckett Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9 7TF, UK. M.Yiasemidou@leeds.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-2599-4131

David RobertsDivision of Anatomy, Leeds Institute of Medical Education, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.

Daniel GlassmanSchool of Surgery, Health Education, Yorkshire and the Humber, Willow Terrace, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.

James TomlinsonSchool of Surgery, Health Education, Yorkshire and the Humber, Willow Terrace, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.

Chandra Shekhar BiyaniDepartment of Urology, St. James's University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7TF, UK.

Danilo MiskovicThe John Goligher Academic Surgical Unit, St. James's University Hospital, 7.26 Clinical Sciences Building, Beckett Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9 7TF, UK.

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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CadaverEmbalming

Identifiers

PMID28936705

DOI10.1007/s00268-017-4251-9

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