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ReviewGastroenterology report2018

Treatment of recurrent

Roy J Hopkins, Robert B Wilson

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Gastroenterology report, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
28citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
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

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

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  6. The Global Burden ofInfectious disease reports · 2025
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  7. Identification ofJournal of bacteriology · 2024
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  10. Identification of DraRS inJournal of bacteriology · 2023
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  17. Initial vancomycin versus metronidazole for the treatment of first-episode non-severeAntimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2021
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  18. Reuterin disruptsGut microbes · 2020
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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

2 authors.

Roy J HopkinsDepartment of Upper GI Surgery, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Robert B WilsonDepartment of Upper GI Surgery, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

anion-binding resinsClostridium difficilefaecal microbiota transplantmonoclonal antibodiesrecurrent infectionsecondary bile acid

Identifiers

PMID29479439
PMCPMC5806400

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Registered trials

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