Glycerol in bacterial meningitis: one strike and out?

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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Osmotic therapies added to antibiotics for acute bacterial meningitis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018
   Pooled it
2. Osmotic therapies added to antibiotics for acute bacterial meningitis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013
   Pooled it
3. Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of pneumococcal meningitis.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2011
   Review

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Glycerol adjuvant therapy in adults with bacterial meningitis in a high HIV seroprevalence setting in Malawi: a double-blind, randomised controlled trial.2011

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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