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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2018

Preventable Patient Harm: a Multidisciplinary, Bundled Approach to Reducing Clostridium difficile Infections While Using a Glutamate Dehydrogenase/Toxin Immunochromatographic Assay/Nucleic Acid Amplification Test Diagnostic Algorithm.

Katherine Schultz, Emily Sickbert-Bennett, Ashley Marx, David J Weber, Lauren M DiBiase, Stacy Campbell-Bright, Lauren E Bode, Mike Baker, Tom Belhorn, Mark Buchanan and 12 more

Abstract read
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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing 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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. The Role of Diagnostic Stewardship inCurrent infectious disease reports · 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

22 authors.

Katherine SchultzUniversity of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA katherine.schultz@unchealth.unc.edu.
Emily Sickbert-BennettUniversity of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Ashley MarxUniversity of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
David J WeberUniversity of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Lauren M DiBiaseUniversity of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Stacy Campbell-BrightUniversity of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Lauren E BodeUniversity of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Mike BakerUniversity of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Tom BelhornUniversity of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Mark BuchananUniversity of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Sherie GoldbachUniversity of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Jacci HardenUniversity of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Emily HokeUniversity of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Beth HuennigerUniversity of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Jonathan J JulianoUniversity of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Michael LangstonUniversity of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Heather RitchieUniversity of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
William A RutalaUniversity of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Jason SmithUniversity of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Shelley Summerlin-LongUniversity of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Lisa TealUniversity of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Peter GilliganUniversity of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Health care facility-onset

Indexed as

AlgorithmsBacterial ProteinsBacterial ToxinsBacteriological TechniquesClostridioides difficileClostridium InfectionsCross InfectionGlutamate DehydrogenaseHospitals, UniversityHumansImmunoassayInfection ControlNorth CarolinaNucleic Acid Amplification TechniquesBacterial ProteinsBacterial ToxinsGlutamate DehydrogenaseClostridium difficileepidemiologyhospital infectionsinfection control

Identifiers

PMID29997201
PMCPMC6113472

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