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ArticleThe New England journal of medicine2020

The Toughest Triage - Allocating Ventilators in a Pandemic.

Robert D Truog, Christine Mitchell, George Q Daley

2 registry-linked trialsAbstract read
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Article in The New England journal of medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 319 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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.

NCT04373135 nacompletednot on this map

A Study to Evaluate Health Behavior and Access Impacts Due to COVID-19 and for Community Engagement of Stakeholders Surrounding Scarce Resource Allocation Policy.

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of California, Los AngelesRan2020 to 2021Enrolled1,971ConditionsCovid-19, Critical Illness, Attitude of Health Personnel, Attitude to HealthArmsBrief educational video
NCT04542122 naunknown statusnot on this map

Moral Judgements and Choices of Caregivers in the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic: a Randomized Experimental Study

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity Hospital, CaenRan2020 to 2021Enrolled500ConditionsMoralsArmsChoices and judgements
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

319 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  8. Tocilizumab in Patients Hospitalized with Covid-19 Pneumonia.The New England journal of medicine · 2021
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  19. Percutaneous tracheostomy in COVID-19 patients: a retrospective cohort study.Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina · 2025
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259 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Robert D TruogFrom the Center for Bioethics (R.D.T., C.M.), the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (R.D.T., C.M.), the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine (G.Q.D.), Harvard Medical School, and the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital (R.D.T.) - both in Boston.ORCID 0000-0001-5384-8281
Christine MitchellFrom the Center for Bioethics (R.D.T., C.M.), the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (R.D.T., C.M.), the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine (G.Q.D.), Harvard Medical School, and the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital (R.D.T.) - both in Boston.
George Q DaleyFrom the Center for Bioethics (R.D.T., C.M.), the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (R.D.T., C.M.), the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine (G.Q.D.), Harvard Medical School, and the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital (R.D.T.) - both in Boston.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Ethics Committees, ClinicalPandemicsCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Health Care RationingHumansPneumonia, ViralResource AllocationTriageUnited StatesVentilators, MechanicalWithholding Treatment

Identifiers

PMID32202721

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