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ReviewPlastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open2019

Simple Effective Ways to Care for Skin Wounds and Incisions.

Don Lalonde, Nadim Joukhadar, Jeff Janis

Erratum issuedAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 8 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing 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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Review
  5. Review
  6. Secondary Healing of Fingertip Amputations: Simple Wound Care Advice for Patients.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2022
    Article
  7. Erratum: Simple Effective Ways to Care for Skin Wounds and Incisions: Erratum.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2021
    Article
  8. Erratum: Simple Effective Ways to Care for Skin Wounds and Incisions: Erratum.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2020
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Don LalondeDalhousie University, Saint John, NB, Canada.
Nadim JoukhadarDalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Jeff JanisOhio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plastic surgeons are medicine's wound experts. Many of the world's poor cannot afford expensive wound management programs. All humans suffer open and closed wounds at some point in their life and must look after them. The purpose of this paper is to provide basic information to the public in very simple terms on how to safely and inexpensively manage wounds. This paper is directed to all nonmedical people, medical students, and other doctors who may not be content experts in this field.

Identifiers

PMID31772896
PMCPMC6846309

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