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ReviewInternal and emergency medicine2016

Acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections in internal medicine wards: old and new drugs.

Marco Falcone, Ercole Concia, Massimo Giusti, Antonino Mazzone, Claudio Santini, Stefania Stefani, Francesco Violi

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Review in Internal and emergency medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Omadacycline for Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infections.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2019
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  4. Managing skin infections in burn patients: principles and pitfalls.Current opinion in infectious diseases · 2026
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  7. Novel Triazeneindole Antibiotics: Synthesis and Hit-to-Lead Optimization.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  18. Early discharge criteria in patients with acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections in a large tertiary-care teaching hospital in Florence, Italy.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Marco FalconeDepartment of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Policlinico Umberto I, Viale Dell'Università 37, 00161, Rome, Italy. marco.falcone@uniroma1.it.
Ercole ConciaDepartment of Pathology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Massimo GiustiHospital San Giovanni Bosco, Turin, Italy.
Antonino MazzoneHospital of Legnano, Milan, Italy.
Claudio SantiniHospital Vannini, Rome, Italy.
Stefania StefaniDepartment of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, Section of Microbiology, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Francesco VioliDepartment of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Sapienza University of Rome · ITAzienda Ospedaliera Ospedale Civile di Legnano · ITOspedale San Giovanni Bosco · ITUniversity of Catania · ITUniversity of Verona · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) are a common cause of hospital admission among elderly patients, and traditionally have been divided into complicated and uncomplicated SSTIs. In 2010, the FDA provided a new classification of these infections, and a new category of disease, named acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSIs), has been proposed as an independent clinical entity. ABSSSIs include three entities: cellulitis and erysipelas, wound infections, and major cutaneous abscesses This paper revises the epidemiology of SSTIs and ABSSSIs with regard to etiologies, diagnostic techniques, and clinical presentation in the hospital settings. Particular attention is owed to frail patients with multiple comorbidities and underlying significant disease states, hospitalized on internal medicine wards or residing in nursing homes, who appear to be at increased risk of infection due to multi-drug resistant pathogens and treatment failures. Management of ABSSSIs and SSTIs, including evaluation of the hemodynamic state, surgical intervention and treatment with appropriate antibiotic therapy are extensively discussed.

Indexed as

AgedAged, 80 and overAnti-Bacterial AgentsCarbapenemsCeftarolineCephalosporinsDaptomycinFemaleFluoroquinolonesGlycopeptidesHospitalizationHumansIatrogenic DiseaseInternal MedicineLinezolidLipoglycopeptidesAnti-Bacterial AgentsCarbapenemsCeftarolineCephalosporinsdalbavancinDaptomycinFluoroquinolonesGlycopeptidesLinezolidLipoglycopeptidesMinocyclineoritavancinOxazolidinonesTeicoplaninTigecyclineVancomycinAcute bacterial skin and skin structure infectionsElderly patientsInternal medicine wardsNew drugs

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PMID27084183
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