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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2020

The Role of Transthoracic Ultrasound in the novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): A Reappraisal. Information and Disinformation: Is There Still Place for a Scientific Debate?

Carla Maria Irene Quarato, Mariapia Venuti, Donato Lacedonia, Anna Simeone, Lucia Maria Cecilia Dimitri, Gaetano Rea, Beatrice Ferragalli, Marco Sperandeo

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 26% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Current Ultrasound Technologies and Instrumentation in the Assessment and Monitoring of COVID-19 Positive Patients.IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Carla Maria Irene QuaratoCOVID-19 Center, Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti di Foggia, Foggia, Italy.
Mariapia VenutiCOVID-19 Center, Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti di Foggia, Foggia, Italy.
Donato LacedoniaCOVID-19 Center, Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti di Foggia, Foggia, Italy.
Anna SimeoneUnit of Radiology, COVID-19 Center, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.
Lucia Maria Cecilia DimitriUnit of Pathology, COVID-19 Center, IRCCS Fondazione Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.
Gaetano ReaRadiology Section, Department of Imaging, Monaldi Hospital, Naples, Italy.
Beatrice FerragalliUnit of Radiology, Department of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences, Adriatic University "G d'Annunzio", Chieti, Italy.
Marco SperandeoUnit of Interventional and Diagnostic Ultrasound of Internal Medicine, COVID-19 Center, IRCCS Fondazione Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.
Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza · ITOspedali Riuniti di Foggia · ITOspedale Monaldi · ITUniversity of Chieti-Pescara · ITUniversity of Foggia · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19diagnostic accuracylung imagingtransthoracic ultrasoundultrasound artifacts

Identifiers

PMID32671079
PMCPMC7326134
OpenAlexW3031163285

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