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SynthesisZhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics2020

[Efficacy and safety of vitamin D as adjuvant therapy for childhood pneumonia: a Meta analysis].

Shi-Yin Mu, Ying-Xue Zou, Jia Zhai, Guo-Hua Yao

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In one paragraph

Synthesis in Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 38% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shi-Yin MuDepartment of Pneumology, Tianjin Children's Hospital, Tianjin 300074, China. xue11235813@163.com.
Ying-Xue Zou
Jia Zhai
Guo-Hua Yao
Tianjin Children's Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo study the efficacy and safety of vitamin D as an adjuvant therapy for childhood pneumonia through a systematic review.

methodsCochrane Library, PubMed, EMbase, CNKI, Wanfang Data, and Weipu Data were searched for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of vitamin D as the adjuvant therapy for childhood pneumonia published up to August 2019. Literature screening, quality assessment, and data extraction were performed based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. Revman 5.3 was used to perform the Meta analysis of outcome indicators.

resultsA total of 7 RCTs with 1 527 children were included, with 762 children in the vitamin D adjuvant therapy group and 765 children in the control group. The results of the Meta analysis showed that vitamin D adjuvant therapy had no effect on recovery time (P=0.67), length of hospital stay (P=0.73), and time to relief of fever (P=0.43). Furthermore, it did not reduce the recurrence rate (P=0.14), rate of adverse events (P=0.20), and mortality rate (P=0.98) of childhood pneumonia.

conclusionsCurrent evidence shows that vitamin D adjuvant therapy has no marked efficacy in the treatment of childhood pneumonia.

Indexed as

PneumoniaChildCombined Modality TherapyFeverHumansLength of StayVitamin DVitamin D

Identifiers

PMID32051078
PMCPMC7390006
OpenAlexW3006085039

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