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GuidelineClinical microbiology reviews2019

Practical Guidance for Clinical Microbiology Laboratories: Viruses Causing Acute Respiratory Tract Infections.

Carmen L Charlton, Esther Babady, Christine C Ginocchio, Todd F Hatchette, Robert C Jerris, Yan Li, Mike Loeffelholz, Yvette S McCarter, Melissa B Miller, Susan Novak-Weekley and 4 more

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Guideline in Clinical microbiology reviews, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 77 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
77citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
14.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

77 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 185 citations in OpenAlex.

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17 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

14 authors at 11 institutions in 2 countries.

Carmen L CharltonDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Esther BabadyMicrobiology Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4399-1249
Christine C GinocchioZucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, New York, USA.
Todd F HatchetteDivision of Microbiology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Robert C JerrisMicrobiology, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Yan LiInfluenza and Respiratory Viruses Section, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Mike LoeffelholzDepartment of Pathology, Clinical Microbiology Division, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA.
Yvette S McCarterDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
Melissa B MillerDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Susan Novak-WeekleyMedical Affairs, Qvella Corporation, Carlsbad, California, USA.
Audrey N SchuetzDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Yi-Wei TangDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4888-6771
Ray WidenEsoteric Testing/R&D Pathology Department, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Steven J DrewsDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada drews@ualberta.ca.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · USUniversity of Alberta · CAChildren's Healthcare of Atlanta · USDalhousie University · CAHofstra University · USMayo Clinic · USPublic Health Agency of Canada · CATampa General Hospital · USThe University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston · USUniversity of Florida Health · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI SELWYN M VICKERS · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Respiratory viral infections are associated with a wide range of acute syndromes and infectious disease processes in children and adults worldwide. Many viruses are implicated in these infections, and these viruses are spread largely via respiratory means between humans but also occasionally from animals to humans. This article is an American Society for Microbiology (ASM)-sponsored Practical Guidance for Clinical Microbiology (PGCM) document identifying best practices for diagnosis and characterization of viruses that cause acute respiratory infections and replaces the most recent prior version of the ASM-sponsored Cumitech 21 document,

Indexed as

Molecular Diagnostic TechniquesAcute DiseaseClinical Laboratory TechniquesHumansMicrobiological TechniquesRespiratory Tract InfectionsVirologyVirus Diseasesclinicalguidancelaboratoryrespiratoryvirus

Identifiers

PMID30541871
PMCPMC6302358
OpenAlexW2904351021

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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.