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ArticleAmerican journal of respiratory and critical care medicine2020

Use of Hydrocortisone, Ascorbic Acid, and Thiamine in Adults with Septic Shock.

Emily A Vail, Hannah Wunsch, Ruxandra Pinto, Nicholas A Bosch, Allan J Walkey, Peter K Lindenauer, Hayley B Gershengorn

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Article in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. Early experience with critically ill patients with COVID-19 in Montreal.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2021
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  18. Evidence and Our Daily Risk Trade-offs in the Care of Critically Ill Patients.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Emily A VailDepartment of Anesthesiology, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.ORCID 0000-0002-1849-5780
Hannah WunschDepartment of Anesthesiology and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Ruxandra PintoDepartment of Anesthesiology and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Nicholas A BoschDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep and Critical Care Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Allan J WalkeyDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep and Critical Care Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Peter K LindenauerInstitute for Healthcare Delivery and Population Science, University of Massachusetts Medical School - Baystate, Springfield, Massachusetts.
Hayley B GershengornDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; and.
Boston University · USUniversity of Toronto · CAAlbert Einstein College of Medicine · USThe University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · USUniversity of Massachusetts Chan Medical School · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Hospital MortalityAgedAged, 80 and overAnti-Inflammatory AgentsAscorbic AcidCohort StudiesDrug Therapy, CombinationEvidence-Based MedicineFemaleHumansHydrocortisoneMaleMiddle AgedObservational Studies as TopicPractice Patterns, Physicians'Retrospective StudiesAnti-Inflammatory AgentsAscorbic AcidHydrocortisoneThiamineVitamin B ComplexVitaminsascorbic acidcritical carephysicians’ practice patternsseptic shock

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PMID32706593
OpenAlexW3044604926

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