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ReviewWorld journal of emergency surgery : WJES

2019 update of the WSES guidelines for management of

Massimo Sartelli, Stefano Di Bella, Lynne V McFarland, Sahil Khanna, Luis Furuya-Kanamori, Nadir Abuzeid, Fikri M Abu-Zidan, Luca Ansaloni, Goran Augustin, Miklosh Bala and 67 more

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Review in World journal of emergency surgery : WJES. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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62citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

62 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 151 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

77 authors at 20 institutions in 32 countries.

Massimo SartelliDepartment of Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Via Santa Lucia 2, 62100 Macerata, Italy.
Stefano Di Bella2Infectious Diseases Department, Trieste University Hospital, Trieste, Italy.
Lynne V McFarland3Medicinal Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA.
Sahil Khanna4Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN USA.
Luis Furuya-Kanamori5Research School of Population Health, Australian National University, Acton, ACT Australia.
Nadir Abuzeid6Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Omdurman Islamic University, Khartoum, Sudan.
Fikri M Abu-Zidan7Department of Surgery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates.
Luca Ansaloni8Department of General Surgery, Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy.
Goran Augustin9Department of Surgery, University Hospital Centre Zagreb and School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
Miklosh Bala10Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Unit, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
Offir Ben-Ishay11Department of General Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
Walter L Biffl12Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, La Jolla, CA USA.
Stephen M Brecher13Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury MA and BU School of Medicine, Boston, MA USA.
Adrián Camacho-OrtizDepartment of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Dr. José E. González, Monterrey, Mexico.
Miguel A Caínzos15Department of Surgery, University of Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain.
Shirley Chan16Department of General Surgery, Medway Maritime Hospital, Gillingham, Kent UK.
Jill R Cherry-Bukowiec17Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA.
Jesse Clanton18Department of Surgery, West Virginia University Charleston Division, Charleston, WV USA.
Federico Coccolini8Department of General Surgery, Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy.
Maria E Cocuz19Faculty of Medicine, Transilvania University, Infectious Diseases Hospital, Brasov, Romania.
Raul Coimbra20Riverside University Health System Medical Center and Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Moreno Valley, CA USA.
Francesco CorteseEmergency Surgery Unit, San Filippo Neri's Hospital, Rome, Italy.
Yunfeng CuiDepartment of Surgery, Tianjin Nankai Hospital, Nankai Clinical School of Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Jacek Czepiel23Department of Infectious Diseases, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Kraków, Poland.
Zaza Demetrashvili24Department of Surgery, Tbilisi State Medical University, Kipshidze Central University Hospital, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Isidoro Di Carlo25Department of Surgical Sciences, Cannizzaro Hospital, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Salomone Di Saverio26Department of Surgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK.
Irina M Dumitru27Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital, Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania.
Christian EckmannDepartment of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, Klinikum Peine, Hospital of Medical University Hannover, Peine, Germany.
Edward H EilandVital Care, Inc, Meridian, MS USA.
Joseph D Forrester30Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA.
Gustavo P Fraga31Division of Trauma Surgery, Hospital de Clinicas, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.
Jean L Frossard32Service of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Geneva University Hospital, Genève, Switzerland.
Donald E Fry33Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL USA.
Rita Galeiras35Critical Care Unit, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas, Universidade da Coruña (UDC), A Coruña, Spain.
Wagih Ghnnam36Department of Surgery Mansoura, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.
Carlos A Gomes37Surgery Department, Hospital Universitario (HU) Terezinha de Jesus da Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas e da Saude de Juiz de Fora (SUPREMA), Hospital Universitario (HU) Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Juiz de Fora, Brazil.
Ewen A Griffiths38Department of Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
Xavier GuiraoUnit of Endocrine, Head, and Neck Surgery and Unit of Surgical Infections Support, Department of General Surgery, Parc Taulí, Hospital Universitari, Sabadell, Spain.
Mohamed H Ahmed40Department of Medicine, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire UK.
Torsten Herzog41Department of Surgery, St. Josef Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Jae Il Kim42Department of Surgery, Ilsan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Goyang, Republic of Korea.
Tariq Iqbal43Department of Gastroenterology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
Arda Isik44General Surgery Department, Magee Womens Hospital, UPMC, Pittsburgh, USA.
Kamal M F Itani45Department of Surgery, VA Boston Health Care System, Boston University and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA.
Francesco M LabricciosaGlobal Alliance for Infections in Surgery, Porto, Portugal.
Yeong Y Lee47School of Medical Sciences, University Sains Malaysia, Kota Bharu, Kelantan Malaysia.
Paul Juang48Department of Pharmacy Practice, St Louis College of Pharmacy, St Louis, MO USA.
Aleksandar KaramarkovicFaculty of Mediine University of Belgrade Clinic for Surgery "Nikola Spasic", University Clinical Center "Zvezdara" Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Peter K Kim50Department of Surgery, Jacobi Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY USA.
Yoram Kluger11Department of General Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
Ari Leppaniemi51Abdominal Center, Helsinki University Hospital Meilahti, Helsinki, Finland.
Varut Lohsiriwat52Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Gustavo M Machain53Department of Surgery, Universidad Nacional de Asuncion, Asuncion, Paraguay.
Sanjay Marwah54Department of Surgery, Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, India.
John E Mazuski55Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, USA.
Gokhan Metan56Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
Ernest E MooreDepartment of Surgery, University of Colorado, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO USA.
Frederick A Moore58Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA.
Carlos A Ordoñez59Department of Surgery, Fundación Valle del Lili, Hospital Universitario del Valle, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
Leonardo PaganiInfectious Diseases Unit, Bolzano Central Hospital, Bolzano, Italy.
Nicola PetrosilloNational Institute for Infectious Diseases - INMI - Lazzaro Spallanzani IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Francisco Portela62Gastroenterology Department, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Kemal RasaDepartment of Surgery, Anadolu Medical Center, Kocaali, Turkey.
Miran RemsDepartment of Abdominal and General Surgery, General Hospital Jesenice, Jesenice, Slovenia.
Boris E Sakakushev65Department of Surgery, Medical University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Helmut Segovia-Lohse53Department of Surgery, Universidad Nacional de Asuncion, Asuncion, Paraguay.
Gabriele Sganga66Division of Emergency Surgery, Department of Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Vishal G Shelat67Department of Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
Patrizia Spigaglia68Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Pierre Tattevin69Infectious Diseases and Intensive Care Unit, Pontchaillou University Hospital, Rennes, France.
Cristian TranàDepartment of Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Via Santa Lucia 2, 62100 Macerata, Italy.
Libor Urbánek70First Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University Brno and University Hospital of St. Ann Brno, Brno, Czech Republic.
Jan Ulrych71First Department of Surgery, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
Pierluigi Viale72Clinic of Infectious Diseases, St Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
Gian L Baiocchi73Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
Fausto Catena74Emergency Surgery Department, Maggiore Parma Hospital, Parma, Italy.
Ospedale di MacerataOspedale “M. Bufalini” di Cesena · ITQueen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham · GBRambam Health Care Campus · ILUniversidad Nacional de Asunción · PYAgostino Gemelli University Polyclinic · ITAnadolu University · TRAustralian National University · AUBoston University · USCambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · GBCharles University · CZCollege of Nursing in Celje · SICorporació Sanitària Parc Taulí · ESDenver Health Medical Center · USFundación Valle del Lili · COHacettepe University · TRHadassah Medical Center · ILHelsinki University Hospital · FIHôpital Pontchaillou · FRHospitais da Universidade de Coimbra · PT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the last three decades,

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsAntimicrobial StewardshipClostridioides difficileClostridium InfectionsEnterocolitis, PseudomembranousFecal Microbiota TransplantationGuidelines as TopicHumansIncidenceInfection ControlPostoperative ComplicationsRisk FactorsAnti-Bacterial AgentsAntimicrobial stewardshipAntimicrobial treatmentClostridioides difficile infectionClostridium difficile infectionFecal microbiota transplantationInfection controlPseudomembranous colitis

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PMID30858872
PMCPMC6394026
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