Reply to a Letter to Editor About the Manuscript: Unsedated Transnasal Endoscopy for Preoperative Examination of Bariatric Patients-a Prospective Study.

Amaury T Xavier, Arthur V Alvares, Prasad G Iyer, Vitor N Arantes

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Article in Obesity surgery, 2020. 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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0citing papers 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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Amaury T XavierEndoscopy Unit, Alfa Institute of Gastroenterology, Clinics Hospital, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Avenida Professor Alfredo Balena, 110, Santa Efigenia, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, 30130-100, Brazil. amaury201@yahoo.com.br.ORCID 0000-0001-5931-4977

Arthur V AlvaresEndoscopy Unit, Military Hospital of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Prasad G IyerDivision of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA.

Vitor N ArantesEndoscopy Unit, Alfa Institute of Gastroenterology, Clinics Hospital, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Avenida Professor Alfredo Balena, 110, Santa Efigenia, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, 30130-100, Brazil.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BariatricsEndoscopyHumansObesity, MorbidProcedural SedationProspective Studies

Identifiers

PMID31630325

DOI10.1007/s11695-019-04223-6

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