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Andrea Cortegiani, Mariachiara Ippolito, Giulia Ingoglia, Andrea Manca, Lucia Cugusi, Anna Severin, Michaela Strinzel, Vera Panzarella, Giuseppina Campisi, Lalu Manoj and 4 more

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Article in F1000Research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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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

14 authors.

Andrea CortegianiDepartment of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Science (Di.Chir.On.S.), University of Palermo, Department of Anesthesia Intensive Care and Emergency, Policlinico Paolo Giaccone, Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1416-9993
Mariachiara IppolitoDepartment of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Science (Di.Chir.On.S.), University of Palermo, Department of Anesthesia Intensive Care and Emergency, Policlinico Paolo Giaccone, Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9851-6301
Giulia IngogliaDepartment of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Science (Di.Chir.On.S.), University of Palermo, Department of Anesthesia Intensive Care and Emergency, Policlinico Paolo Giaccone, Palermo, Italy.
Andrea MancaDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, 07100, Italy.
Lucia CugusiDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, 07100, Italy.
Anna SeverinSwiss National Science Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern, CH-3001, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-6231-5695
Michaela StrinzelSwiss National Science Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern, CH-3001, Switzerland.
Vera PanzarellaDepartment of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Science (Di.Chir.On.S), Section of Oral Medicine, University of Palermo, Palermo, 90127, Italy.
Giuseppina CampisiDepartment of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Science (Di.Chir.On.S), Section of Oral Medicine, University of Palermo, Palermo, 90127, Italy.
Lalu ManojCentre for Journalology, Clinical Epidemiology Program, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, 201B, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-0322-382X
Cesare GregorettiDepartment of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Science (Di.Chir.On.S.), University of Palermo, Department of Anesthesia Intensive Care and Emergency, Policlinico Paolo Giaccone, Palermo, Italy.
Sharon EinavIntensive Care Unit of the Shaare Zedek Medical Medical Centre, Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel.
David MoherCentre for Journalology, Clinical Epidemiology Program, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, 201B, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-2434-4206
Antonino GiarratanoDepartment of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Science (Di.Chir.On.S.), University of Palermo, Department of Anesthesia Intensive Care and Emergency, Policlinico Paolo Giaccone, Palermo, Italy.

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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Identifiers

PMID33024548
PMCPMC7512033

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