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ReviewCurrent problems in surgery2014

Necrotizing soft tissue infections: review and current concepts in treatment, systems of care, and outcomes.

Timo W Hakkarainen, Nicole M Kopari, Tam N Pham, Heather L Evans

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Review in Current problems in surgery, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 187 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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187citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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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

187 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  16. Risk factors and predictors of in-hospital mortality in necrotizing fasciitis: a five-year retrospective cohort study from a tertiary care center in Colombia.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Timo W Hakkarainen
Nicole M Kopari
Tam N Pham
Heather L Evans

Funding

Renewal: Gastrointestinal Surgery Outcomes Research FellowshipT32DK070555 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI FLUM, DAVID R · 2010 to 2024
$3.6M
NIDDK NIH HHS T32 DK070555
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsDebridementDelivery of Health Care, IntegratedFasciitis, NecrotizingHumansHyperbaric OxygenationImmunocompromised HostPain ManagementSoft Tissue InfectionsTreatment OutcomeWound HealingAnti-Bacterial Agents

Identifiers

PMID25069713
PMCPMC4199388

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