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ArticleInterventional pain medicine2024

FactFinders for patient safety: Delaying epidural steroid injections: Infection and safe platelet cutoff.

Patricia Zheng, David Hao, George Christolias, Ben Marshall, Clark C Smith, Shaan Sudhakaran, Jaymin Patel, Zachary L McCormick, International Pain & Spine Intervention Society's Patient Safety Committee

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Article in Interventional pain medicine, 2024. 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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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.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Patricia ZhengUniversity of California San Francisco, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, San Francisco, CA, USA.
David HaoDepartment of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
George ChristoliasColumbia University Medical Center, Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Ben MarshallUniversity of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Denver, CO, USA.
Clark C SmithColumbia University Medical Center, Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Shaan SudhakaranNational Spine and Pain Centers, Washington, DC, USA.
Jaymin PatelEmory University, Department of Orthopaedics, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Zachary L McCormickUniversity of Utah, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
International Pain & Spine Intervention Society's Patient Safety Committee

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This series of FactFinders presents a brief summary of the evidence and outlines recommendations to improve our understanding and management of patients with potential contraindications to epidural steroid injections.

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PMID39239505
PMCPMC11372875

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