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ArticleWorld journal of surgery2017

Antibiotics Versus Appendicectomy for the Treatment of Uncomplicated Acute Appendicitis: An Updated Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials by Rollins et al.

J C Harnoss, P Probst, M W Büchler, M K Diener

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Article in World journal of surgery, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  9. [Infections in visceral surgery].Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

J C HarnossDepartment of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery and Study Center of the German Surgical Society, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
P ProbstDepartment of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery and Study Center of the German Surgical Society, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
M W BüchlerDepartment of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery and Study Center of the German Surgical Society, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
M K DienerDepartment of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery and Study Center of the German Surgical Society, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany. markus.diener@med.uni-heidelberg.de.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsAppendicitisAcute DiseaseAppendectomyHumansAnti-Bacterial Agents

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PMID28050666

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