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ReviewJournal of thoracic disease2019

Management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease-A position statement of the South African Thoracic Society: 2019 update.

Mohamed Sabeer Abdool-Gaffar, Gregory Calligaro, Michelle Lianne Wong, Clifford Smith, Umesh Gangaram Lalloo, Coenraad Frederik Nicolaas Koegelenberg, Keertan Dheda, Brian William Allwood, Akhter Goolam-Mahomed, Richard Nellis van Zyl-Smit

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Review in Journal of thoracic disease, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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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

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Environmental prescribing for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2026
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  4. Exercise and the lungs: From physiology to pathophysiology - a narrative review.African journal of thoracic and critical care medicine · 2026
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  8. Airway clearance techniques for people with acute exacerbation of COPD: a scoping review.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025
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  13. Position statement on endoscopic lung volume reduction in South Africa: 2022 update.African journal of thoracic and critical care medicine · 2022
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  15. Severe asthma in South Africa: A literature review and management approach for primary care.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2021
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  17. Pharmacotherapy of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Therapeutic considerations with a focus on inhaled corticosteroids.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2020
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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

10 authors.

Mohamed Sabeer Abdool-GaffarKingsway Hospital, Amanzimtoti, Kwa Zulu-Natal, South Africa.
Gregory CalligaroDivision of Pulmonology and UCT Lung Institute, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Michelle Lianne WongDivision of Pulmonology, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Clifford SmithMorningside Mediclinic, Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Umesh Gangaram LallooDurban University of Technology, Enhancing Care Foundation and Busamed Gateway Private Hospital, Kwa Zulu-Natal, South Africa.
Coenraad Frederik Nicolaas KoegelenbergDivision of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.
Keertan DhedaDivision of Pulmonology and UCT Lung Institute, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Brian William AllwoodDivision of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.
Akhter Goolam-MahomedLouis Pasteur Private Hospital and Mediclinic Pretoria Heart Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa.
Richard Nellis van Zyl-SmitDivision of Pulmonology and UCT Lung Institute, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID31903229
PMCPMC6940223

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