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ArticleCJEM2019

Is an IOTA of evidence enough?

Seth Nicholas Phillips Davis, Nina Di Nicola, Sophie Gosselin

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Article in CJEM, 2019. 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

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No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Seth Nicholas Phillips Davis*Emergency Medicine Residency Program,Faculty of Medicine,McGill University,Montreal,QC.
Nina Di Nicola*Emergency Medicine Residency Program,Faculty of Medicine,McGill University,Montreal,QC.
Sophie Gosselin*Emergency Medicine Residency Program,Faculty of Medicine,McGill University,Montreal,QC.ORCID 0000-0002-0694-5588

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinical questionDo patients with acute illness admitted to the hospital and treated with liberal oxygen therapy compared with those treated with conservative oxygen therapy have differences in mortality and morbidity?Article chosenChu DK, Kim LH, Young PJ, et al. Mortality and morbidity in acutely ill adults treated with liberal versus conservative oxygen therapy (IOTA): a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet 2018;391(10131):1693-705.

objectivesTo analyse the existing literature to assess the potential benefits or harms of supplemental oxygen use in acutely ill patients.

Indexed as

OxygenOxygen Inhalation TherapyAdultHospitalizationHumansMorbidityOxygendrug therapyhyperoxemiameta-analysisoxygen therapy

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PMID30651153

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