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ArticleBMJ case reports2018

Primary meningococcal septic arthritis with multiple native joint involvement.

Connor Boyle, Thomas Howard, David Griffith, Jonathan Cowie

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Connor BoyleDivision of Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2124-607X
Thomas HowardDepartment of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, NHS Fife, Kirkcaldy, UK.
David GriffithDepartment of Microbiology, NHS Fife, Kirkcaldy, UK.
Jonathan CowieDepartment of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, NHS Fife, Kirkcaldy, UK.
NHS Fife · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A previously healthy 18-year-old woman presented with an acutely painful, swollen right ankle joint, with similar symptoms subsequently developing in the right hip and right wrist. Microbiological samples from the ankle aspirate grew

Indexed as

Ankle JointAdolescentAnti-Bacterial AgentsArthritis, InfectiousDiagnosis, DifferentialDrainageFemaleHumansInfusions, IntravenousMeningococcal InfectionsNeisseria meningitidisAnti-Bacterial Agentsbone and joint infectionsinfectionsmusculoskeletal and joint disordersorthopaedic and trauma surgery

Identifiers

PMID29739760
PMCPMC5950553
OpenAlexW2800883808

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.