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SynthesisClinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry2020

Procalcitonin in patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): A meta-analysis.

Giuseppe Lippi, Mario Plebani

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In one paragraph

Synthesis in Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04409899 (The Utility of Enhanced Pre- and Post-surgical Protocols to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 in a Large Urological Department), which is not on this map. Cited by 297 papers, 12 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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297citing papers in PubMed, 12 pooled it
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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.

NCT04409899 unknown statusnot on this map

The Utility of Enhanced Pre- and Post-surgical Protocols to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 in a Large Urological Department (UroCovid Study)

TypeobservationalSponsorFundacio PuigvertRan2020 to 2020Enrolled300ConditionsCOVID-19, Urologic Diseases, Surgery--Complications, Epidemic DiseaseArmsBlood tests
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

297 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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237 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Giuseppe LippiSection of Clinical Biochemistry, Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Movement, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Mario PlebaniDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital of Padova, Padova, Italy. Electronic address: mario.plebani@unipd.it.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusClinical Laboratory TechniquesCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19COVID-19 TestingHumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralProcalcitoninRisk FactorsSARS-CoV-2ProcalcitoninCoronavirusCOVID-19ProcalcitoninPrognosis

Identifiers

PMID32145275
PMCPMC7094472

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