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ArticleBlood2018

High sensitivity and specificity of an automated IgG-specific chemiluminescence immunoassay for diagnosis of HIT.

Theodore E Warkentin, Jo-Ann I Sheppard, Lori-Ann Linkins, Donald M Arnold, Ishac Nazy

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Article in Blood, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
24citing papers in PubMed
6.6field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

24 citing papers in PubMed, 55 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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Theodore E WarkentinDepartment of Pathology and Molecular Medicine and.ORCID 0000-0002-8046-7588
Jo-Ann I SheppardDepartment of Pathology and Molecular Medicine and.
Lori-Ann LinkinsDepartment of Medicine, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Donald M ArnoldDepartment of Medicine, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Ishac NazyDepartment of Medicine, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
McMaster University · CAThrombosis and Atherosclerosis Research Institute · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AdultAgedAged, 80 and overAnticoagulantsBayes TheoremFemaleHeparinHumansImmunoassayImmunoglobulin GLuminescent MeasurementsMaleMiddle AgedPlatelet Factor 4ThrombocytopeniaAnticoagulantsHeparinImmunoglobulin GPlatelet Factor 4

Identifiers

PMID30064975
PMCPMC6202723
OpenAlexW2885450077

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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