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ArticleThe Journal of hospital infection2018

Value of widespread use of multiplex PCR for diagnosis of viral respiratory tract infections in children.

S Braybrook, J Gray

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Article in The Journal of hospital infection, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 42% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Impact of multiplex respiratory virus testing on antimicrobial consumption in adults in acute care: a randomized clinical trial.Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases · 2020
    Trial
  2. Impact of multiplexed respiratory viral panels on infection control measures and antimicrobial stewardship: a review of the literature.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2022
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

S BraybrookDepartment of Microbiology, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK. Electronic address: Shona.braybrook@nhs.net.
J GrayDepartment of Microbiology, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
Birmingham Children's Hospital · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Influenza, HumanRespiratory Tract InfectionsVirus DiseasesChildHumansMultiplex Polymerase Chain ReactionSeasons

Identifiers

PMID29157663
OpenAlexW2768864705

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.