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ArticleShoulder & elbow2018

Investigation and Management of Periprosthetic Joint Infection in the Shoulder and Elbow: Evidence and consensus based guidelines of the British Elbow and Shoulder Society.

Amar Rangan, Mark Falworth, Adam C Watts, Matthew Scarborough, Michael Thomas, Rohit Kulkarni, Jonathan Rees

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Article in Shoulder & elbow, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Amar RanganUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Mark FalworthUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Adam C WattsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Matthew ScarboroughUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Michael ThomasUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Rohit KulkarniUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Jonathan ReesUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID29796102
PMCPMC5958475
OpenAlexW2803122449

What OpenQuestion holds

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