Acid suppression and pneumonia: a clinical indication for rational prescribing.

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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Use of acid-suppressive drugs and risk of pneumonia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2011
   Pooled it
2. Gastro-oesophageal reflux treatment for prolonged non-specific cough in children and adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2011
   Pooled it
3. Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials of gastro-oesophageal reflux interventions for chronic cough associated with gastro-oesophageal reflux.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2006
   Pooled it
4. Proton pump inhibitor-associated pneumonia: Not a breath of fresh air after all?World journal of gastrointestinal pharmacology and therapeutics · 2011
   Article
5. Inappropriate Use of Intravenous PPI for Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis in an Inner City Community Hospital.Journal of clinical medicine research · 2010
   Article
6. Airway acidification and gastroesophageal reflux.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2008
   Review
7. Occurrence of community-acquired respiratory tract infection in patients receiving esomeprazole: retrospective analysis of adverse events in 31 clinical trials.Drug safety · 2008
   Article
8. Defining the relationship between gastroesophageal reflux and cough: probabilities, possibilities and limitations.Cough (London, England) · 2007
   Article

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Risk of community-acquired pneumonia and use of gastric acid-suppressive drugs.2004

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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