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ArticleSurgery today2018

Are body mass index and performance status enough to assess the nutritional and functional status of elderly patients undergoing gastric cancer surgery?

Irene Lidoriki, Dimitrios Schizas

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Article in Surgery today, 2018. 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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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Irene LidorikiFirst Department of Surgery, Laikon General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 17 Agiou Thoma Str., Goudi, 11527, Athens, Greece.
Dimitrios SchizasFirst Department of Surgery, Laikon General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 17 Agiou Thoma Str., Goudi, 11527, Athens, Greece. schizasad@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7046-0112

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Body Mass IndexGastrectomyNutritional StatusSarcopeniaAged, 80 and overAgingFrailtyHospital MortalityHumansPrevalenceSeverity of Illness IndexStomach NeoplasmsTreatment OutcomeBody mass indexPerformance statusSarcopenia

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PMID29931546

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