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ArticleMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2021

Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Morbidity and Mortality Rates of Emergency General Surgery? A Retrospective Study from a Single-Center Tertiary Greek Hospital.

Eleni Karlafti, Emmanouil S Benioudakis, Daniel Paramythiotis, Konstantinos Sapalidis, Georgia Kaiafa, Triantafyllos Didangelos, Antonios Michalopoulos, Isaak Kesisoglou, Christos Savopoulos

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Article in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 19% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 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

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Eleni KarlaftiEmergency Department, AHEPA University General Hospital of Thessaloniki, 55636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Emmanouil S BenioudakisFirst Propeadeutic Internal Medicine Department, AHEPA University General Hospital of Thessaloniki, 55636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Daniel ParamythiotisFirst Propaedeutic Surgery Department, AHEPA University General Hospital of Thessaloniki, 55636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Konstantinos SapalidisThird Surgery Department, AHEPA University General Hospital of Thessaloniki, 55636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Georgia KaiafaFirst Propeadeutic Internal Medicine Department, AHEPA University General Hospital of Thessaloniki, 55636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Triantafyllos DidangelosFirst Propeadeutic Internal Medicine Department, AHEPA University General Hospital of Thessaloniki, 55636 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-0236-8760
Antonios MichalopoulosFirst Propaedeutic Surgery Department, AHEPA University General Hospital of Thessaloniki, 55636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Isaak KesisoglouEmergency Department, AHEPA University General Hospital of Thessaloniki, 55636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Christos SavopoulosFirst Propeadeutic Internal Medicine Department, AHEPA University General Hospital of Thessaloniki, 55636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
AHEPA University Hospital · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19PandemicsEmergency Service, HospitalGreeceHumansMaleMorbidityRetrospective StudiesSARS-CoV-2Tertiary Care CentersCOVID-19emergency surgerypandemicSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID34833403
PMCPMC8624623
OpenAlexW3208737384

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