Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32066526›Full record

ArticleLancet (London, England)2020

Full spectrum of COVID-19 severity still being depicted - Authors' reply.

Xiaoying Gu, Bin Cao, Jianwei Wang

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Article in Lancet (London, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Xiaoying GuInstitute of Clinical Medical Sciences, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China; Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, National Clinical Research Center of Respiratory Diseases, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing 100029, China; Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing 100029, China.
Bin CaoDepartment of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, National Clinical Research Center of Respiratory Diseases, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing 100029, China; Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing 100029, China; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China; Tsinghua University-Peking University Joint Center for Life Sciences, Beijing, China. Electronic address: caobin_ben@163.com.
Jianwei WangNHC Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens and Christophe Merieux Laboratory, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsPneumonia, ViralBetacoronavirusCOVID-19HumansSARS-CoV-2Severity of Illness Index

Identifiers

PMID32066526
PMCPMC7133586

What OpenQuestion holds

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