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ArticleIntensive care medicine2019

Micronutrient deficiency in critical illness: an invisible foe?

Michael P Casaer, Rinaldo Bellomo

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Article in Intensive care medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. ICU-acquired weakness.Intensive care medicine · 2020
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  5. Critical care nutrition and the legacy of Rinaldo Bellomo.Critical care and resuscitation : journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine · 2025
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  9. What do we know about micronutrients in critically ill patients? A narrative review.JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition · 2025
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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Michael P CasaerThe Clinical Department and Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven (UZLeuven), Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium. Michael.casaer@uzleuven.be.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7087-0795
Rinaldo BellomoCentre for Integrated Critical Care, School of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
The University of Melbourne · AUUniversitair Ziekenhuis Leuven · BE

Funding

Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek 1832817NOnderzoeksraad, KU Leuven C24/17/070Onderzoeksraad, KU Leuven STG/16/021
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Ascorbic Acid DeficiencyCarnitineCritical IllnessFolic AcidHumansMicronutrientsNutritional StatusVitamin B 12 DeficiencyVitamin D DeficiencyZincCarnitineFolic AcidMicronutrientsZinc

Identifiers

PMID31338529
OpenAlexW2963477054

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

None linked

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.