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ArticleChronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (Miami, Fla.)2018

Spirometry in Hospitalized Patients with Acute Exacerbation of COPD Accurately Predicts Post Discharge Airflow Obstruction.

Chee H Loh, Frank A Genese, Kavya K Kannan, Tina M Lovings, Stephen P Peters, Jill A Ohar

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Article in Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (Miami, Fla.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 19% 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Are We Missing the Opportunity to Disseminate GOLD Recommendations Through AECOPD Discharge Letters?International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Chee H LohDepartment of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Frank A GeneseDepartment of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Kavya K KannanDepartment of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Tina M LovingsDepartment of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Stephen P PetersDepartment of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Jill A OharDepartment of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

acute exacerbations of COPDAECOPDchronic obstructive pulmonary diseasecopdCOPD readmissionsinpatient spirometry

Identifiers

PMID30374450
PMCPMC6190522
OpenAlexW2795240936

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