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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2013

Vancomycin Use for Pediatric Clostridium difficile Infection Is Increasing and Associated with Specific Patient Characteristics.

Hayden T Schwenk, Dionne A Graham, Tanvi S Sharma, Thomas J Sandora

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 46% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Guideline
  2. Comparative effectiveness of metronidazole and vancomycin for treatment ofAntimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2025
    Article
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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hayden T SchwenkDivision of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA hschwenk@stanford.edu.
Dionne A GrahamClinical Research Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Tanvi S SharmaDivision of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Thomas J SandoraDivision of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Boston Children's Hospital · US

Funding

Expanding training in comparative effectiveness for child health researchersT32HS019485 · AHRQ · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI FINKELSTEIN, JONATHAN A · 2010 to 2010
$825k
AHRQ HHS T32 HS019485
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID23796942
PMCPMC3754290
OpenAlexW2031918066

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.