Evidence map›Paper›PMID 24129852›Full record

Trial reportMedizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin2013

[Challenges of Clostridium difficile infection].

A Ebigbo, H Messmann

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Trial report in Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 48% 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, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

A EbigboIII. Medizinische Klinik, Klinikum Augsburg, Stenglinstr. 2, 86156, Augsburg, Deutschland, alanna.ebigbo@klinikum-augsburg.de.
H Messmann
Augsburg University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clostridium difficile infections remain a problem especially for patients in the intensive care unit. The fact that C. difficile infections are strongly associated with antibiotic therapy calls for more caution in the use of antibiotics, especially in patients with a high risk of developing C. difficle infections. Severe infections and recurrent episodes are usually difficult to manage and therapeutic options are often limited. The method of stool transplantation, though not new, has received more attention in recent years, with studies showing stool transplantation to be a promising and easy method which has high clinical cure rates even for recurrent C. difficile infections. However, more randomised and controlled trials are needed to further study the efficacy of stool transplantation in patients with C. difficile infection.

Indexed as

AminoglycosidesBiodiversityCause of DeathColonoscopyCross InfectionDisinfectionEnterocolitis, PseudomembranousFecesFidaxomicinHospital MortalityHumansMetronidazolePatient ReadmissionPrognosisRecurrenceTomography, X-Ray ComputedAminoglycosidesFidaxomicinMetronidazoleVancomycin

Identifiers

PMID24129852
OpenAlexW123317999

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Registered trials

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