What the PERCH study means for future pneumonia strategies.

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.

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.

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Microbial and immune determinants of disease severity and death in pediatric pneumonia.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026
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2. Epidemiology and surveillance implications of community-acquired pneumonia in children.Clinical and experimental pediatrics · 2022
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3. Aetiology of lobar pneumonia determined by multiplex molecular analyses of lung and pleural aspirate specimens in the Gambia: findings from population-based pneumonia surveillance.BMJ open · 2022
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4. Surveillance of respiratory viruses at health facilities from across Kenya, 2014.Wellcome open research · 2022
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5. Gram-Positive Pneumonia: Possibilities Offered by Phage Therapy.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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6. New Look at RSV Infection: Tissue Clearing and 3D Imaging of the Entire Mouse Lung at Cellular Resolution.Viruses · 2021
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7. Performance of a multiplex PCR pneumonia panel for the identification of respiratory pathogens and the main determinants of resistance from the lower respiratory tract specimens of adult patients in intensive care units.Journal of microbiology, immunology, and infection = Wei mian yu gan ran za zhi · 2019
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Corrections and comments

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  Causes of severe pneumonia requiring hospital admission in children without HIV infection from Africa and Asia: the PERCH multi-country case-control study.2019

Authors and funding

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