Evidence map›Paper›PMID 17390118›Full record

ReviewDer Internist2007

[Diagnostic procedures for patients with community acquired pneumonia].

U Flückiger, M Battegay, G Laifer

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Review in Der Internist, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 41% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. [Community-acquired pneumonia].Der Radiologe · 2017
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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.

U FlückigerKlinik für Infektiologie & Spitalhygiene, Universitätsspital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031 Basel. uflueckiger@uhbs.ch
M Battegay
G Laifer
University Hospital of Basel · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The diagnosis of community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is based on a patient history with respiratory symptoms and additional symptoms and signs such as fever over more than 4 days, dyspnea and tachypnea and/or a positive lung auscultation. Despite recently developed tests, radiology is a key diagnostic procedure for confirming CAP. Importantly, the first treating physician must judge whether to hospitalize a patient or not. Two major scoring systems allow judgement of severity and short-term prognosis. In general, in patients with mild or moderate pneumonia who can be treated on an ambulatory basis, no specific microbiological diagnosis must be performed. If, for clinical or epidemiological reasons a gram stain is done, it must be obtained from purulent sputum. Recent tests may help in discriminating between viral and bacterial pneumonia (procalcitonin test) or determine the bacteria responsible for acute disease (pneumococcal antigen test using urine).

Indexed as

Ambulatory CareAnti-Bacterial AgentsAuscultationBacteriological TechniquesCommunity-Acquired InfectionsDiagnosis, DifferentialHospitalizationHumansMedical History TakingPhysical ExaminationPneumonia, BacterialPneumonia, PneumococcalRadiographySputumAnti-Bacterial Agents

Identifiers

PMID17390118
OpenAlexW102344383

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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