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ArticleThe European respiratory journal2021

Corticosteroids in COVID-19: one size does not fit all.

Athena Gogali, Chris Kyriakopoulos, Konstantinos Kostikas

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Article in The European respiratory journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  6. Steroid use in elderly critically ill COVID-19 patients.The European respiratory journal · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Athena GogaliRespiratory Medicine Dept, University Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
Chris KyriakopoulosRespiratory Medicine Dept, University Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8806-2561
Konstantinos KostikasRespiratory Medicine Dept, University Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece ktkostikas@gmail.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0774-3942

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19Adrenal Cortex HormonesHospital MortalityHumansMethylprednisoloneSARS-CoV-2Adrenal Cortex HormonesMethylprednisolone

Identifiers

PMID33574071
PMCPMC7877324

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