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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2024

Wider use of tranexamic acid to reduce surgical bleeding could benefit patients and health systems.

Ian Roberts, Michael F Murphy, Ramani Moonesinghe, Michael P W Grocott, Chimwemwe Kalumbi, Rob Sayers, Cheng-Hock Toh, UK Royal Colleges Tranexamic Acid in Surgery Implementation Group

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

8 authors.

Ian RobertsClinical Trials Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK Ian.Roberts@LSHTM.ac.uk.
Michael F MurphyNHS Blood and Transplant, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Ramani MoonesingheNHS England, London, UK.
Michael P W GrocottRoyal College of Anaesthetists, London, UK.
Chimwemwe KalumbiRoyal Surrey County Hospital NHS, Guildford, UK.
Rob SayersUniversity of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
Cheng-Hock TohUniversity of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
UK Royal Colleges Tranexamic Acid in Surgery Implementation Group

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Antifibrinolytic AgentsBlood Loss, SurgicalTranexamic AcidHumansAntifibrinolytic AgentsTranexamic Acid

Identifiers

PMID38866414
PMCPMC11170764

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