C-reactive protein: guiding antibiotic prescribing decisions at the point of care.

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.

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.

Who cites it

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

1. Biomarkers as point-of-care tests to guide prescription of antibiotics in people with acute respiratory infections in primary care.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022
   Pooled it
2. Effectiveness of serial C-reactive protein point-of-care testing in optimizing antibiotic treatment in neonates and children in Zanzibar: an open-label, individual randomized controlled clinical trial protocol.BMC pediatrics · 2026
   Trial
3. A high α1-antitrypsin/interleukin-10 ratio predicts bacterial pneumonia in adults with community-acquired pneumonia: a prospective cohort study.Pneumonia (Nathan Qld.) · 2023
   Article
4. C-Reactive Protein as a Diagnostic Marker in Dogs: A Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022
   Review
5. The comparative interrupted time series design for assessment of diagnostic impact: methodological considerations and an example using point-of-care C-reactive protein testing.Diagnostic and prognostic research · 2022
   Article
6. Implementing point-of-care CRP testing for better diagnosis of acute respiratory infections.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2022
   Article
7. C-reactive protein cut-offs used for acute respiratory infections in Danish general practice.BJGP open · 2021
   Article
8. Predictive modeling of bacterial infections and antibiotic therapy needs in critically ill adults.Journal of biomedical informatics · 2020
   Article
9. Economic considerations support C-reactive protein testing alongside malaria rapid diagnostic tests to guide antimicrobial therapy for patients with febrile illness in settings with low malaria endemicity.Malaria journal · 2019
   Article
10. Evidence-based physical examination and point-of-care testing to improve patient care and avoid unnecessary hospital admission.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2018
    Article

Corrections and comments

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  Evidence-based physical examination and point-of-care testing to improve patient care and avoid unnecessary hospital admission.2018
• Comment on
  Reducing inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for children in primary care: a cluster randomised controlled trial of two interventions.2018

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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