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ArticleUnited European gastroenterology journal2019

Stool for fecal microbiota transplantation should be classified as a transplant product and not as a drug.

Josbert J Keller, Maria Jgt Vehreschild, Christian L Hvas, Simon Md Jørgensen, Jouzas Kupciskas, Alexander Link, Chris Jj Mulder, Simon D Goldenberg, Ramesh Arasaradnam, Harry Sokol and 6 more

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Article in United European gastroenterology journal, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Addressing Unmet Needs inCurrent medicinal chemistry · 2026
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  7. Stools' donor recruitment, a challenge in pandemic times.United European gastroenterology journal · 2021
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  12. Regulation, risk and safety of Faecal Microbiota Transplant.Infection prevention in practice · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Josbert J KellerDepartment of Gastroenterology, Haaglanden Medical Center, The Hague, The Netherlands, and Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Maria Jgt VehreschildUniversity of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital of Cologne, Department I of Internal Medicine, Center for Integrated Oncology Aachen Bonn Cologne Düsseldorf (CIO ABCD), German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Bonn - Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Christian L HvasDepartment of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
Simon Md JørgensenDepartment of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-5135-7435
Jouzas KupciskasDepartment of Gastroenterology and Institute for Digestive Research, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Alexander LinkDepartment of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
Chris Jj MulderChris Mulder, Department of Gastroenterology, Free University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Simon D GoldenbergCentre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research (CIDR), King's College London and Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Ramesh ArasaradnamWarwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2231-3062
Harry SokolSorbonne Université, INSERM, Saint-Antoine Research Center (CRSA), Paris, France.
Antonio GasbarriniGastroenterology Area, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Gemelli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Christoph HoegenauerDivision of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
Elizabeth M TerveerDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Netherlands Donor Feces Bank, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Ed J KuijperCentre for Microbiota Analysis and Therapeutics, Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Perttu ArkkilaHelsinki University Hospital and Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland.
UEG working group of the Standards and Guidelines initiative Stool banking for FMT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Fecal Microbiota TransplantationEnterocolitis, PseudomembranousFecesHumansTransplants

Identifiers

PMID31839966
PMCPMC6894000

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