Evidence map›Paper›PMID 36240511›Full record

ArticleThe British journal of surgery2022

Paediatric appendicitis: international study of management in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Paul van Amstel, Ali El Ghazzaoui, Nigel J Hall, Tomas Wester, Francesco Morini, Johanna H van der Lee, Georg Singer, Agostino Pierro, Augusto Zani, Ramon R Gorter and 1 more

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in The British journal of surgery, 2022. 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.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
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.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Pooled it
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Appendicitis.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2025
    Review
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Review
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

11 authors.

Paul van AmstelDepartment of Paediatric Surgery, Emma Children's Hospital, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-0992-5547
Ali El GhazzaouiDivision of General and Thoracic Surgery, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Nigel J HallUniversity Surgery Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8570-9374
Tomas WesterDepartment of Paediatric Surgery, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
Francesco MoriniNeonatal Surgery Unit, Medical and Surgical Department of the Fetus, Newborn, and Infant, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Johanna H van der LeePediatric Clinical Research Office, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Georg SingerDepartment of Paediatric and Adolescent Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
Agostino PierroDivision of General and Thoracic Surgery, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Augusto ZaniDivision of General and Thoracic Surgery, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Ramon R GorterDepartment of Paediatric Surgery, Emma Children's Hospital, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
CONNECT collaborative study group

Funding

Swedish Medical Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AppendicitisCOVID-19AppendectomyChildHumansPandemicsRetrospective Studies

Identifiers

PMID36240511
PMCPMC9384519

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.