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ArticleThe Journal of infection2021

Comparing the 4C mortality score for COVID-19 to established scores (CURB65, CRB65, qSOFA, NEWS) for respiratory infection patients.

Zoe Wellbelove, Chloe Walsh, Tanaraj Perinpanathan, Patrick Lillie, Gavin Barlow

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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 16 papers.

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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

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  13. ISARIC-4C Mortality Score overestimates risk of death due to COVID-19 in Australian ICU patients: a validation cohort study.Critical care and resuscitation : journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Zoe WellbeloveHull University Teaching Hospitals, Castle Hill Hospital, Cottingham, Hull HU16 5JQ, United Kingdom. Electronic address: zoe.wellbelove@hey.nhs.uk.
Chloe WalshHull University Teaching Hospitals, Castle Hill Hospital, Cottingham, Hull HU16 5JQ, United Kingdom.
Tanaraj PerinpanathanHull University Teaching Hospitals, Castle Hill Hospital, Cottingham, Hull HU16 5JQ, United Kingdom.
Patrick LillieHull University Teaching Hospitals, Castle Hill Hospital, Cottingham, Hull HU16 5JQ, United Kingdom.
Gavin BarlowHull University Teaching Hospitals, Castle Hill Hospital, Cottingham, Hull HU16 5JQ, United Kingdom.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Community-Acquired InfectionsCOVID-19SepsisHumansOrgan Dysfunction ScoresSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID33115655
PMCPMC7585728

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