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ArticleChest2021

COUNTERPOINT: Tracheostomy in Patients With COVID-19: Should We Do It Before 14 Days? No.

Vinciya Pandian, Septimiu Murgu, Carla R Lamb

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Article in Chest, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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7citing 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

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

  1. Early versus late tracheostomy in critically ill COVID-19 patients.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023
    Pooled it
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  3. Predictors of Decannulation Success in Tracheostomy: A 10-Year Analysis of the Global Tracheostomy Collaborative Database.Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Vinciya PandianJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Septimiu MurguUniversity of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Carla R LambLahey Hospital and Medical Center, Tufts University, Burlington, MA. Electronic address: Carla.R.Lamb@Lahey.org.

Funding

Symptoms Assessment and Screening for Laryngeal Injury Post-extubation in ICUR01NR017433 · NINR · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI BRODSKY, MARTIN BRUCE, NEEDHAM, DALE MURRAY · 2018 to 2022
$3.2M
NINR NIH HHS R01 NR017433
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19TracheostomyHumansRespiration, ArtificialSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID33651999
PMCPMC7910655

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.