Evidence map›Paper›PMID 42882393›Full record

ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2026

A Two-Tier Patient-Based Real-Time Quality Control Program Integrating K-Means Department Stratification and Inter-Instrument Ratios Improves Detection of Small Systematic Errors in Creatinine Testing.

Xuemei Wei, Ziqing Jiang, Jingzhu Nan, Zefeng Yan, Zhu Lin, Rong Li, Jie Feng, Yanhong Gao

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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.

Xuemei WeiDepartment of Clinical Laboratory, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China.ORCID 0009-0005-1585-6674
Ziqing JiangDepartment of Clinical Laboratory, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China.
Jingzhu NanDepartment of Clinical Laboratory, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100029, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3003-424X
Zefeng YanDepartment of Clinical Laboratory, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China.
Zhu LinDepartment of Clinical Laboratory, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4800-2393
Rong LiDepartment of Clinical Laboratory, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China.
Jie FengDepartment of Clinical Laboratory, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6969-9356
Yanhong GaoDepartment of Clinical Laboratory, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

creatinineerror detectionexponentially weighted moving average (EWMA)K-means clusteringpatient-based real-time quality control (PBRTQC)ratio method

Identifiers

PMID42882393
PMCPMC13664551

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
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.