Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32800268›Full record

ArticleThe Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery2020

Reply: Have we done the best that we could have done?

Rakesh C Arora, Ansar Hassan, Jonathan W Haft, Society of Thoracic Surgeons COVID-19 Taskforce

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Article in The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Rakesh C AroraDepartment of Surgery, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada; Cardiac Sciences Program, St Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, Canada.
Ansar HassanDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, New Brunswick Heart Centre, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
Jonathan W HaftDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Society of Thoracic Surgeons COVID-19 Taskforce

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Cardiac Surgical ProceduresCoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsClinical Laboratory TechniquesCOVID-19 TestingHumans

Identifiers

PMID32800268
PMCPMC7423581

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Registered trials

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