Timing of Antibiotic Administration in Sepsis and Septic Shock: The Impact That a Meta-Analysis Does Not Depict.

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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. [S3 Guideline Sepsis-prevention, diagnosis, therapy, and aftercare : Long version].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2020
   Guideline
2. Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016.Intensive care medicine · 2017
   Guideline
3. A case-control study evaluating the unnecessary use of intravenous broad-spectrum antibiotics in presumed sepsis and septic-shock patients in the emergency department.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2022
   Article
4. Septic pulmonary embolism in China: clinical features and analysis of prognostic factors for mortality in 98 cases.BMC infectious diseases · 2019
   Article
5. Predicted Economic Benefits of a Novel Biomarker for Earlier Sepsis Identification and Treatment: A Counterfactual Analysis.Critical care explorations · 2019
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6. Predicting and managing sepsis in burn patients: current perspectives.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2017
   Article
7. The authors reply.Critical care medicine · 2016
   Article

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  The Impact of Timing of Antibiotics on Outcomes in Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.2015

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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