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ArticleJournal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives2018

In with acute bronchitis; out with duodenal perforation: the potentially harmful cascade of over-testing. A case report.

Karamjit Dhaliwal, Victoria Malkhasyan, Mohammed Elhassan

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In one paragraph

Article in Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Karamjit DhaliwalDepartment of Internal Medicine, UCSF/Fresno Internal Medicine Residency Program, Fresno, CA,USA.
Victoria MalkhasyanDepartment of Internal Medicine, UCSF/Fresno Internal Medicine Residency Program, Fresno, CA,USA.
Mohammed ElhassanDepartment of Internal Medicine, UCSF/Fresno Internal Medicine Residency Program, Fresno, CA,USA.
California State University, Fresno · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Overutilization of diagnostic imaging can lead to unnecessary interventions and subsequently can jeopardize patient safety. When ordered, the results of these images should always be interpreted in the appropriate clinical context taking into consideration the patient clinical presentation and the natural history of the diseases which are being investigated. We presented a case that demonstrates for the practicing physicians how violating these two notions can lead ultimately to patient harm.

Indexed as

defensive medicineduodenal perforationOver-testing in medicineunnecessary images

Identifiers

PMID29441163
PMCPMC5804681
OpenAlexW2797007254

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Registered trials

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