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ArticleAmerican journal of respiratory and critical care medicine2017

Antibiotics for Sepsis: Does Each Hour Really Count, or Is It Incestuous Amplification?

Mervyn Singer

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Article in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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53citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

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

  1. Efficacy and Safety of Procalcitonin-Guided Antibiotic Therapy versus Standard of Care for Sepsis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Medical principles and practice : international journal of the Kuwait University, Health Science Centre · 2026
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  14. Multidrug-Resistant Sepsis: A Critical Healthcare Challenge.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  16. Risk of Misleading Conclusions in Observational Studies of Time-to-Antibiotics and Mortality in Suspected Sepsis.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023
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  18. Pharmacist Involvement in Sepsis Response and Time to Antibiotics: A Systematic Review.Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy : JACCP · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Mervyn Singer1 Bloomsbury Institute of Intensive Care Medicine University College London London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-1042-6350

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 AgentsEmergency Service, HospitalHospital MortalityHumansSepsisAnti-Bacterial Agents

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