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ReviewJournal of clinical microbiology2018

CLSI Methods Development and Standardization Working Group Best Practices for Evaluation of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Tests.

Romney M Humphries, Jane Ambler, Stephanie L Mitchell, Mariana Castanheira, Tanis Dingle, Janet A Hindler, Laura Koeth, Katherine Sei, CLSI Methods Development and Standardization Working Group of the Subcommittee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing

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Review in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 397 papers.

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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

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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

397 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Romney M HumphriesAccelerate Diagnostics, Tucson, Arizona, USA rhumphries@axdx.com.
Jane AmblerWockhardt, Morton Grove Pharmaceuticals, Morton Grove, Illinois, USA.
Stephanie L MitchellClinical Microbiology Laboratory, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Mariana CastanheiraJMI Laboratories, North Liberty, Iowa, USA.
Tanis DingleProvincial Laboratory for Public Health, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Janet A HindlerDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Laura KoethLaboratory Specialists, Inc., Westlake, Ohio, USA.
Katherine SeiBeckman-Coulter, West Sacramento, California, USA.
CLSI Methods Development and Standardization Working Group of the Subcommittee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Effective evaluations of antimicrobial susceptibility tests (ASTs) require robust study design. The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) Subcommittee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing has recognized that many published studies reporting the performance of commercial ASTs (cASTs) suffer from major design and/or analysis flaws, rendering the results difficult or impossible to interpret. This minireview outlines the current consensus of the Methods Development and Standardization Working Group of the CLSI Subcommittee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing regarding best practices for systematic evaluation of the performance of an AST, including the analysis and presentation of essential data intended for publication.

Indexed as

Clinical Laboratory TechniquesHumansMicrobial Sensitivity Testsantimicrobial susceptibility testingCLSIevaluations

Identifiers

PMID29367292
PMCPMC5869819

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