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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2021

Is qSOFA Suitable for Early Diagnosis of Sepsis Among Bacteremia Patients in Emergency Departments? Time for a Reappraisal of Sepsis-3 Criteria.

Ching-Chi Lee, Ching-Yu Ho, Po-Lin Chen, Chih-Chia Hsieh, William Yu Chung Wang, Chih-Hao Lin, Wen-Chien Ko

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 35% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Ching-Chi LeeClinical Medicine Research Center, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
Ching-Yu HoDepartment of Adult Critical Care Medicine, Tainan Sin-Lau Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan.
Po-Lin ChenDepartment of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
Chih-Chia HsiehDepartment of Emergency Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
William Yu Chung WangDepartment of Management Systems, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Chih-Hao LinDepartment of Emergency Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
Wen-Chien KoDepartment of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
National Cheng Kung University Hospital · TWNational Cheng Kung University · TWSin-Lau Christian Hospital · TWUniversity of Waikato · NZ

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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antibioticbacteremiamortalitysepsisSepsis-2Sepsis-3source control

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PMID34746178
PMCPMC8563787
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