Adjunctive dexamethasone in meningitis: does value depend on clinical setting?

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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Corticosteroids for acute bacterial meningitis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015
   Pooled it
2. Controversies in neurology, Vienna, 2012: steroids in bacterial meningitis: no.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2013
   Article
3. Dexamethasone for adult community-acquired bacterial meningitis: 20 years of experience in daily practice.Journal of neurology · 2012
   Article
4. Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of pneumococcal meningitis.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2011
   Review

Corrections and comments

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  Adjunctive dexamethasone in bacterial meningitis: a meta-analysis of individual patient data.2010

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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