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ArticleThe Lancet. Infectious diseases2018

Use of prevalence data to study sepsis incidence and mortality in intensive care units.

Sam Doerken, Micha Mandel, Walter Zingg, Martin Wolkewitz

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Article in The Lancet. Infectious diseases, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 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

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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. National point prevalence survey on healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals, Switzerland, 2017.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sam DoerkenInstitute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Division Methods in Clinical Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Freiburg Center for Data Analysis and Modeling, Freiburg, Germany. Electronic address: doerken@imbi.uni-freiburg.de.
Micha MandelDepartment of Statistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Walter ZinggInfection Control Program and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.
Martin WolkewitzInstitute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Division Methods in Clinical Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Freiburg Center for Data Analysis and Modeling, Freiburg, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Intensive Care UnitsSepsisBrazilHumansIncidencePrevalence

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PMID29485090

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