Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29734958›Full record

ArticleEpidemiology and infection2018

Empiric anti-tuberculosis treatment is not always a right way in patients who had have poorly controlled diabetes mellitus and presented with pulmonary cavities over upper lungs in tuberculosis endemic countries.

Chih-Hung Cheng, Chih-Jen Yang

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Article in Epidemiology and infection, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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

0 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Chih-Hung ChengDepartment of Internal Medicine,Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital,Kaohsiung Medical University,Kaohsiung,Taiwan.
Chih-Jen YangDepartment of Internal Medicine,Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital,Kaohsiung Medical University,Kaohsiung,Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-3576-7936
Kaohsiung Medical University · TW

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Endemic DiseasesAgedAntitubercular AgentsBiopsyDiabetes ComplicationsDiagnosis, DifferentialHumansInappropriate PrescribingLungMalePneumoniaRadiography, ThoracicTaiwanTuberculosis, PulmonaryAntitubercular Agents

Identifiers

PMID29734958
PMCPMC9134279
OpenAlexW2801755505

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