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ArticleLiver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society2025

Trends in surgical volume and mortality by surgery type among patients with cirrhosis: A Veterans Affairs study.

Helen Tang, David E Kaplan, Nadim Mahmud

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Article in Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Helen TangDepartment of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
David E KaplanDivision of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Nadim MahmudDivision of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Funding

Improving Surgical Risk Prediction and Decision Making among Patients with CirrhosisK08DK124577 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI MAHMUD, NADIM · 2021 to 2025
$835k
Understanding Patient Preferences for Surgical Management in the Setting of Cirrhosis: A Mixed-Methods ApproachR03DK134794 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI MAHMUD, NADIM · 2024 to 2025
$244k
NIDDK NIH HHS K08 DK124577NIDDK NIH HHS R03 DK134794
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

cirrhosis surgerypostoperative mortalityVeterans Affairs

Identifiers

PMID39868959
PMCPMC12178816

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