Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29619320›Full record

ArticleIDCases2018

Kaveh Rezaei Bookani, Rachel Marcus, Eyad Cheikh, Monireh Parish, Usman Salahuddin

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Article in IDCases, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed
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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

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

5 authors.

Kaveh Rezaei BookaniMedStar Harbor Hospital, 3001 South Hanover St, Baltimore, MD 21225, United States.
Rachel MarcusCardiology Department, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, United States.
Eyad CheikhInternal Medicine Department, MedStar Harbor Hospital, United States.
Monireh ParishInternal Medicine Department, Providence Hospital, Washington, DC, United States.
Usman SalahuddinCardiology Department, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diphtheroids are gram-positive pleomorphic bacilli in the family of Coryneform bacteria. These organisms are present as part of the human flora. Past practice habits had been to consider them as contaminants when isolated from clinical samples.

Indexed as

CorynebacteriumEndocarditisJeikeium

Identifiers

PMID29619320
PMCPMC5881414

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