Using a two-dimensional display to guide selection of citations

 
Citations can be plotted in two-dimensions using date of publication and projected quality of the article or the journal it is published in. In this demonstration, quality is projected by the quality of the journal as measured by the Article Influence (AI) Score
 
Example using list of PMIDs from the trials included in the meta-analysis by Abourbih (2009) (does not include subsequently published ACCORD trial) This frontier performs best when it is wide.
Example using list of PMIDs from the trials included in the meta-analysis by Kansagara (2011)
Example using list of PMIDs from the trials included in the meta-analysis by Musini (2009) This frontier performs best when it is wide.
 
Settings
Input type:
Include related citations:
Frontier width:

Frontier width?

  • 0.52 is the width between the NEJM and JAMA
  • 0.55 is the width between the JAMA and the Annals of Internal Medicine
Privilege evidence-based sources:

Privilege evidence-based sources?

  • If clicked, then the article influence score of articles by known providers of evidence-based resources such as the Cochrane, U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, and others, will be set equal to JAMA.
  • This option has not been formally tested. It may cause trials with article influence less than JAMA and published between the date of the search by the evidence-based review and the date of publication of the review to be removed from the frontier.
Focus:
Abstract required:
Citation to highlight
Options for publication:
Color graphics:   -  Citation start number
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You are not using FireFox; you will not see an extract of the abstract when you hover over the citations in the plot. However, you will see an extract when you hover over the PMID.
 
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The frontier is the red band.
The frontier is defined as containing those trials for which there are no trials both more recent and published in a journal with a AI Score higher than the specified width of the frontier.
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* Estimated by the natural log of the article influence score of the journal that the citation is published in.

Citations found

Total: 12

Frontier

Hypothesis: These studies are considered in the Frontier and should be reviewed by a clinician needing to make a decision.
  1. Intensive versus conventional glucose control in critically ill patients. N Engl J Med. 2009. PMID: 19318384 AI Score: 21.64
  2. Intensive insulin therapy and pentastarch resuscitation in severe sepsis. N Engl J Med. 2008. PMID: 18184958 AI Score: 21.64
  3. Intensive insulin therapy in the medical ICU. N Engl J Med. 2006. PMID: 16452557 AI Score: 21.64
  4. Intensive insulin therapy in critically ill patients. N Engl J Med. 2002. PMID: 11794168 AI Score: 21.64

Citations not on frontier

Hypothesis: These citations are considered outside of the frontier and could safely be ignored by a clinician needing to make a decision.
  1. Tight glycemic control may favor fibrinolysis in patients with sepsis. Crit Care Med. 2008. PMID: 19114908 AI Score: 2.046
  2. A prospective randomised multi-centre controlled trial on tight glucose control by intensive insulin therapy in adult intensive care units: the Glucontrol study. Intensive Care Med. 2008. PMID: 19636533 AI Score: 1.501
  3. Intensive versus conventional insulin therapy: a randomized controlled trial in medical and surgical critically ill patients. Crit Care Med. 2008. PMID: 18936702 AI Score: 2.046
  4. Strict glycaemic control in patients hospitalised in a mixed medical and surgical intensive care unit: a randomised clinical trial. Crit Care. 2008. PMID: 18799004 AI Score: 1.706
  5. Strict versus moderate glucose control after resuscitation from ventricular fibrillation. Intensive Care Med. 2007. PMID: 17928994 AI Score: 1.501
Additional citations below the limits of the plot.
  1. (below limit of plot) Does continuous insulin therapy reduce postoperative supraventricular tachycardia incidence after coronary artery bypass operations in diabetic patients? J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2007. PMID: 18503925
  2. (below limit of plot) Insulin therapy of hyperglycemia in intensive care. Isr Med Assoc J. 2007. PMID: 17402320
    3. No citations

Article influence score not available

  1. Reduction of nosocomial infections in the surgical intensive-care unit by strict glycemic control. Endocr Pract. 2004 ISSN: 1530-891X ISSNlinking: 1530-891X. PMID: 15251640
 
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