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ReviewArchives of disease in childhood2003

Diagnosis and treatment of bacterial meningitis.

H El Bashir, M Laundy, R Booy

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In one paragraph

Review in Archives of disease in childhood, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
28citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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

28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 157 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pre-admission antibiotics for suspected cases of meningococcal disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017
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  5. Protocol for Evaluation and Management of Hearing Loss After Meningitis.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2023
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  9. Isolation and identification ofAccess microbiology · 2020
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  13. Meningitis with Digital Gangrene in Meningococcal Infection: An Atypical Presentation.Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR · 2016
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  18. CSF Proteins as Discreminatory Markers of Tubercular and Pyogenic Meningitis.Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR · 2013
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  19. Infections of the nervous system.International journal of critical illness and injury science · 2012
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  20. Use of quantitative broad-based polymerase chain reaction for detection and identification of common bacterial pathogens in cerebrospinal fluid.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2010
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

H El BashirAcademic Department of Child Health, Queen Mary School of Medicine and Dentistry at Barts and The London, University of London, UK.
M Laundy
R Booy
Royal London Hospital · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review focuses on recent advances of topical interest regarding the diagnosis and treatment of common causes of bacterial meningitis occurring in children beyond the neonatal period. Tuberculous meningitis is beyond the scope of this review.

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsChildChild, PreschoolDexamethasoneDrug Resistance, BacterialFluid TherapyGlucocorticoidsHumansInfantIntracranial HypertensionMeningitis, BacterialSpinal PunctureAnti-Bacterial AgentsDexamethasoneGlucocorticoids

Identifiers

PMID12818910
PMCPMC1763168
OpenAlexW2116851290

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Registered trials

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