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ArticleIntensive care medicine2018

ECDC definitions and methods for the surveillance of healthcare-associated infections in intensive care units.

Diamantis Plachouras, Alain Lepape, Carl Suetens

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Article in Intensive care medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 54 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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54citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Diamantis PlachourasEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Gustav III:s boulevard 40, 169 73, Solna, Sweden. diamantis.plachouras@ecdc.europa.eu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9637-7803
Alain LepapeClinical Research Unit, Critical Care, Lyon Sud University Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France.
Carl SuetensEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Gustav III:s boulevard 40, 169 73, Solna, Sweden.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Critical CareClinical ProtocolsCross InfectionEuropeHumans

Identifiers

PMID29797028
PMCPMC6280825

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