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ArticleInternal and emergency medicine2021

Routine measurement of d-dimers on suspected SARS-CoV2-infected patients does not lead to significant increase in radiological investigations.

Mikkel Brabrand, Søren Bie Bogh, Marianne Fløjstrup, John Kellett, Tim Cooksley, Christian H Nickel

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Article in Internal and emergency medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. The Reply.The American journal of medicine · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Mikkel BrabrandDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of South West Jutland, Finsensgade 35, 6700, Esbjerg, Denmark. mikkel.brabrand@rsyd.dk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3340-8251
Søren Bie BoghOdense Patient Exploratory Network (OPEN), University of Southern Denmark and Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
Marianne FløjstrupDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of South West Jutland, Finsensgade 35, 6700, Esbjerg, Denmark.
John KellettDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of South West Jutland, Finsensgade 35, 6700, Esbjerg, Denmark.
Tim CooksleyDepartment of Acute Medicine, University Hospital of South Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Christian H NickelEmergency Department, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID33389449
PMCPMC7778476

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