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ArticleDiabetes & metabolic syndrome

Letter to the editor in response to: Telemedicine for diabetes care in India during COVID19 pandemic and national lockdown period: Guidelines for physicians.

Raju Vaishya, Shashi Bahl, Ravi Pratap Singh

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Article in Diabetes & metabolic syndrome. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Raju VaishyaDepartment of Orthopaedics, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, 110076, India. Electronic address: raju.vaishya@gmail.com.
Shashi BahlDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, Hoshiarpur Campus, Hoshiarpur, 146001, India. Electronic address: shashi.bahl@ptu.ac.in.
Ravi Pratap SinghDepartment of Industrial and Production Engineering, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, 144011, India. Electronic address: singhrp@nitj.ac.in.
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar · INIndraprastha Apollo Hospitals · INPunjab Technical University · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsDiabetes MellitusPandemicsPneumonia, ViralTelemedicineBetacoronavirusCOVID-19HumansIndiaSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32442918
PMCPMC7235564
OpenAlexW3027862127

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.