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ArticleAmerican journal of respiratory and critical care medicine2021

Informing Healthcare Decisions with Observational Research Assessing Causal Effect. An Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement.

Andrea S Gershon, Peter K Lindenauer, Kevin C Wilson, Louise Rose, Allan J Walkey, Mohsen Sadatsafavi, Kevin J Anstrom, David H Au, Bruce G Bender, M Alan Brookhart and 16 more

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Article in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
30citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
19.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

30 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

26 authors.

Peter K LindenauerORCID 0000-0002-8414-0507
Kevin C Wilson
Mohsen SadatsafaviORCID 0000-0002-0419-7862
David H Au
Bruce G Bender
M Alan Brookhart
Min J Joo
Anuj B Mehta
Richard A MularskiORCID 0000-0001-6979-2542
Kristin A RiekertORCID 0000-0001-6892-3512
Noah C SchoenbergORCID 0000-0003-3165-8529
Hannah Wunsch
Joel J Africk

Funding

Developing a Novel Decision Aid for Tracheostomy to Support Shared Decision-Making in the Intensive Care UnitK23HL141704 · NHLBI · NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH · PI MEHTA, ANUJ · 2019 to 2023
$818k
NHLBI NIH HHS K23 HL141704
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Clinical Decision-MakingBiomedical ResearchCritical CareDelivery of Health CareEvidence-Based MedicineHumansObservational Studies as TopicPractice Guidelines as TopicSocieties, MedicalThoracic DiseasesUnited Statesevidence synthesisobservational studiespractice guidelines

Identifiers

PMID33385220
PMCPMC7781125
OpenAlexW3115509726

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