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Melissa B Oliver, Ankita Basu Roy, Ranjit Kumar, Elliot J Lefkowitz, W Edward Swords

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Article in mSphere. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
37citing papers in PubMed
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

37 citing papers in PubMed, 50 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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Melissa B OliverDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Ankita Basu RoyDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Ranjit KumarBiomedical Informatics, Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Elliot J LefkowitzBiomedical Informatics, Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
W Edward SwordsDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
University of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

UAB CF Research and Translation Core CenterP30DK072482 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI Susan Elizabeth Birket · 2007 to 2026
$23.0M
Microbial interactions in otitis mediaR01DC010051 · NIDCD · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI ORNELLES, DAVID ARNOLD, SWORDS, WILLIAM E · 2009 to 2018
$3.3M
Bacterial biofilms in otitis mediaR01DC007444 · NIDCD · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI SWORDS, WILLIAM E · 2005 to 2014
$2.9M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC007444NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC010051NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK072482
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Identifiers

PMID29152579
PMCPMC5687919
OpenAlexW2769525249

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Registered trials

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