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ArticleMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2019

Manual Massage Therapy for Patients with COPD: A Scoping Review.

Massimiliano Polastri, Enrico Maria Clini, Stefano Nava, Nicolino Ambrosino

Open access · goldAbstract readScoping Review
In one paragraph

Article in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Observational
  3. Article
  4. Article
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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Massimiliano PolastriMedical Department of Continuity of Care and Disability, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, St. Orsola University Hospital, 40138 Bologna, Italy. gbptap1@gmail.com.
Enrico Maria CliniDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 41121 Modena, Italy. enrico.clini@unimore.it.ORCID 0000-0002-1515-5094
Stefano NavaDepartment of Specialistic, Diagnostic and Experimental Medicine (DIMES), University of Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy. stefano.nava@aosp.bo.it.
Nicolino AmbrosinoIstituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri, IRCCS, Pulmonary Rehabilitation Institute of Montescano, 27040 Montescano, Italy. nico.ambrosino@gmail.com.
Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri · ITUniversity of Bologna · ITUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

HumansMassagePhysical Therapy ModalitiesPulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveQuality of LifeCOPDmanual massagephysiotherapypulmonary rehabilitationrespiratory muscles

Identifiers

PMID31108862
PMCPMC6572655
OpenAlexW2946253308

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.