Suboptimal care of patients before admission to intensive care. is caused by a failure to appreciate or apply the ABCs of life support.

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.

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.

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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2. Critical care and the global burden of critical illness in adults.Lancet (London, England) · 2010
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3. Bench-to-bedside review: The MET syndrome--the challenges of researching and adopting medical emergency teams.Critical care (London, England) · 2008
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4. Clinical review: Outreach - a strategy for improving the care of the acutely ill hospitalized patient.Critical care (London, England) · 2004
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5. Effect of the critical care outreach team on patient survival to discharge from hospital and readmission to critical care: non-randomised population based study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2003
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6. Suboptimal ward care of critically ill patients. Suboptimal care should have been defined.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1999
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Corrections and comments

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  Suboptimal ward care of critically ill patients. Active management should prevent cardiopulmonary arrests.1999
• Commented on by
  Suboptimal care should have been defined. Course is available for surgical trainees.1999
• Comment on
  Confidential inquiry into quality of care before admission to intensive care.1998

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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