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SynthesisEuropean journal of internal medicine2020

Factors associated with mortality in patients with COVID-19. A quantitative evidence synthesis of clinical and laboratory data.

Paulo Ricardo Martins-Filho, Carolina Santos Souza Tavares, Victor Santana Santos

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Synthesis in European journal of internal medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 92 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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92citing papers in PubMed, 7 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.

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

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

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32 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.

Paulo Ricardo Martins-FilhoUniversidade Federal de Sergipe, Hospital Universitário, Laboratório de Patologia Investigativa. Rua Cláudio Batista, s/n. Sanatório. Aracaju, Sergipe, CEP: 49060-100 Brazil. Electronic address: martins-filho@ufs.br.
Carolina Santos Souza TavaresUniversidade Federal de Sergipe, Hospital Universitário, Laboratório de Patologia Investigativa. Rua Cláudio Batista, s/n. Sanatório. Aracaju, Sergipe, CEP: 49060-100 Brazil.
Victor Santana SantosCentre for Epidemiology and Public Health. Federal University of Alagoas, Arapiraca, Brazil.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsMultiple Organ FailurePandemicsPneumonia, ViralRisk AssessmentSurvival AnalysisBetacoronavirusCOVID-19Hospital MortalityHost Microbial InteractionsHumansPrognosisRisk FactorsSARS-CoV-2Severity of Illness Index

Identifiers

PMID32345526
PMCPMC7177074

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Registered trials

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