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ArticleClinical and translational medicine2020

Dilemmas about instructions for administering drugs and indications for their use: is there negative effect of pharmaceutical industry?

Enver Zerem

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Article in Clinical and translational medicine, 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
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 52% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Enver ZeremDepartment of Medical Sciences, The Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bistrik 7, 71000, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. zerem@live.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6906-3630
University Clinical Hospital Mostar · BA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Instructions for administering some drugs and indications for their use raise certain dilemmas and controversies questioning the appropriateness of the treatment in this way. In this article, some controversies regarding the prescribing of statins in patients whose blood cholesterol level is normal and the use of anticoagulants in the elderly patients without blood clots prior to the treatment are described. Also, it is discussed about some controversies regarding the use of the insulin analogues in the treatment of patients with diabetes mellitus.

Indexed as

AnticoagulantsImpact of pharmaceutical industryInstructions for administering drugsInsulin analoguesStatins

Identifiers

PMID32002701
PMCPMC6992826
OpenAlexW3004229852

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