Corticosteroids for acute bacterial meningitis.

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, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Adjunctive dexamethasone in bacterial meningitis: a meta-analysis of individual patient data.The Lancet. Neurology · 2010
   Pooled it
2. Pneumococcal meningitis and vaccine effects in the era of conjugate vaccination: results of 20 years of nationwide surveillance in Germany.BMC infectious diseases · 2015
   Article
3. Dexamethasone for adult community-acquired bacterial meningitis: 20 years of experience in daily practice.Journal of neurology · 2012
   Article
4. Streptococcus suis meningitis with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss.The Korean journal of laboratory medicine · 2011
   Article
5. Immunological and biochemical correlates of adjunctive dexamethasone in Vietnamese adults with bacterial meningitis.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2009
   Article
6. Bacterial meningitis: epidemiology, pathogenesis and management update.Drugs · 2009
   Article
7. Adjunctive corticosteroids for adults in Vietnam with bacterial meningitis.Current infectious disease reports · 2008
   Article
8. Fulminant meningococcal sepsis in a woman with previously unknown hyposplenism.Medscape journal of medicine · 2008
   Article

Corrections and comments

• Commented on by
  Corticosteroids for bacterial meningitis.2008
• Comment on
  Dexamethasone in Vietnamese adolescents and adults with bacterial meningitis.2007
• Comment on
  Corticosteroids for bacterial meningitis in adults in sub-Saharan Africa.2007

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as