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ArticleThe Journal of infection2021

The potential indicators for pulmonary fibrosis in survivors of severe COVID-19.

Wenhui Huang, Qingxia Wu, Zhuozhi Chen, Zhiyuan Xiong, Kun Wang, Jie Tian, Shuixing Zhang

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Article in The Journal of infection, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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46citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

46 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 85 citations in OpenAlex.

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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.

Wenhui HuangCollege of Medicine and Biological Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Liaoning, China; Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangdong, China.
Qingxia WuCollege of Medicine and Biological Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Liaoning, China.
Zhuozhi ChenDepartment of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangdong, China.
Zhiyuan XiongDepartment of Chemical and Bio-molecular Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Kun WangCAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Jie TianBeijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, Beihang University, Beijing, China.
Shuixing ZhangDepartment of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangdong, China. Electronic address: shui7515@126.com.
First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University · CNBeihang University · CNNortheastern University · CNShandong Institute of Automation · CNUniversity of Melbourne · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19Pulmonary FibrosisHumansRisk FactorsSARS-CoV-2Survivors

Identifiers

PMID32998036
PMCPMC7521372
OpenAlexW3088153469

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