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ArticleCase reports in infectious diseases2016

John W Amburgy, Joseph H Miller, Benjamin J Ditty, Patrick Vande Lune, Shaaf Muhammad, Winfield S Fisher

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Article in Case reports in infectious diseases, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 24% 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

John W AmburgyDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4360-9871
Joseph H MillerDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Benjamin J DittyDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Patrick Vande LuneSchool of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Shaaf MuhammadDepartment of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Winfield S FisherDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, USA; Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA.
University of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cryptococcal infections are seen throughout the United States in both immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients. The most common form is

Identifiers

PMID28018689
PMCPMC5149630
OpenAlexW2554851134

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