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ArticleStroke2020

The Curious Case of the Missing Strokes During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Diana Aguiar de Sousa, Else Charlotte Sandset, Mitchell S V Elkind

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Article in Stroke, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers, 3 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.

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

55 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  8. COVID-19 and stroke in women: impact on clinical, psychosocial and research aspects.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024
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  14. Stroke admissions during the COVID-19 pandemic: a single-center retrospective analysis.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022
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  16. Did COVID-19 impact stroke services? A multicenter study.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022
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  17. Stroke in the COVID-19 pandemic era.Postepy psychiatrii neurologii · 2022
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  19. In-hospital and out-of-hospital stroke in patients with COVID-19: two different diseases?Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Diana Aguiar de SousaDepartment of Neurosciences and Mental Health (Neurology), Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal (D.A.d.S.).
Else Charlotte SandsetStroke Unit, Department of Neurology, University of Oslo, Norway (E.C.S.).
Mitchell S V ElkindDepartment of Neurology and Sergievsky Center, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY (M.S.V.E.).

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusPneumonia, ViralStrokeCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2Editorialsemergenciesepidemiologyprognosispublic healththrombectomy

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PMID32466737
PMCPMC7282410

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