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ArticleAntimicrobial resistance and infection control2018

View point: gaps in the current guidelines for the prevention of Methicillin-resistant

Kevin T Kavanagh, Said Abusalem, Lindsay E Calderon

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Article in Antimicrobial resistance and infection control, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 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

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Methicillin-ResistantMicroorganisms · 2023
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Review
  7. Prevalence and antibiotic resistance ofFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023
    Article
  8. Methicillin ResistantInfection and drug resistance · 2023
    Review
  9. Review
  10. AntimicrobialMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
    Article
  11. Article
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

3 authors.

Kevin T KavanaghHealth Watch USA, Somerset, KY USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4588-6509
Said Abusalem2Health Watch USA, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY USA.
Lindsay E Calderon3Health Watch USA, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The authors advocate the addition of two preventative strategies to the current United State's guidelines for the prevention of surgical site infections. It is known that

Indexed as

Cross InfectionMethicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureusDisease OutbreaksDisinfectionHealth PersonnelHealth Planning GuidelinesHealth PolicyHumansPractice Guidelines as TopicStaphylococcal InfectionsSurgical Wound InfectionUnited States

Identifiers

PMID30250734
PMCPMC6145096

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