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ReviewJournal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives2021

Role of steroids in critically-ill sepsis patients: a review article and literature to review.

Mohsin Mirza, Maryam Zafar, Mariam Siddiqui, Anum Abbas, Joseph Nahas, Muazzam Mirza, Abubakar Tauseef

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Review in Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 34% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Mohsin MirzaInternal Medicine Department, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, USA.
Maryam ZafarInternal Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, DUHS, Karachi, Pakistan.
Mariam SiddiquiInternal Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, DUHS, Karachi, Pakistan.
Anum AbbasInternal Medicine Department, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA.
Joseph NahasInternal Medicine Department, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, USA.
Muazzam MirzaInternal Medicine Department, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, USA.
Abubakar TauseefInternal Medicine Department, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, USA.
Creighton University · USDow University of Health Sciences · PKUniversity of Nebraska Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sepsis, a life-threatening condition, commonly affecting critically ill patients, is a major cause of death worldwide. It is thus of great importance to determine the optimum management to cure this condition. This review article summarizes the role and effects of corticosteroids in the treatment of sepsis and septic shock, and to determine its mortality benefits. We used PubMed, Google scholar, Scopus, and Embase databases for literature review, and terminologies commonly searched were 'sepsis', 'septic shock', 'therapeutic use' and 'corticosteroids'. In this review article, we reviewed a total of eight different articles being done in last 10 years, relevant to the clinical outcome and effects of corticosteroids. Among those, two demonstrated improved clinical outcomes, two showed both improved clinical outcomes and decreased mortality, three showed increased adverse effects, and the remaining one showed unequivocal results.

Indexed as

critically illliteraurereviewRolesepsissteroid

Identifiers

PMID34804399
PMCPMC8604467
OpenAlexW3214325395

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