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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2020

Meropenem-Vaborbactam versus Ceftazidime-Avibactam for Treatment of Carbapenem-Resistant

Renee Ackley, Danya Roshdy, Jacqueline Meredith, Sarah Minor, William E Anderson, Gerald A Capraro, Christopher Polk

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In one paragraph

Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 113 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
113citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
7.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

113 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 156 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

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Renee AckleyDepartment of Pharmacy, Atrium Health, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA renee.ackley@atriumhealth.org.
Danya RoshdyDepartment of Pharmacy, Atrium Health, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
Jacqueline MeredithDepartment of Pharmacy, Atrium Health, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
Sarah MinorDepartment of Pharmacy, AdventHealth, Orlando, Florida, USA.
William E AndersonCenter for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
Gerald A CapraroCarolinas Pathology, Atrium Health Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
Christopher PolkDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Atrium Health, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
Atrium Medical Cente · USAdventHealth Orlando · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The comparative efficacy of ceftazidime-avibactam and meropenem-vaborbactam for treatment of carbapenem-resistant

Indexed as

CarbapenemsAgedAnti-Bacterial AgentsAzabicyclo Compoundsbeta-Lactamase InhibitorsBoronic AcidsCarbapenem-Resistant EnterobacteriaceaeCeftazidimeCohort StudiesDrug CombinationsDrug Resistance, Multiple, BacterialEnterobacteriaceae InfectionsFemaleHumansMaleMeropenemAnti-Bacterial Agentsavibactamavibactam, ceftazidime drug combinationAzabicyclo Compoundsbeta-Lactamase InhibitorsBoronic AcidsCarbapenemsCeftazidimeDrug CombinationsMeropenemvaborbactamcarbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceaeceftazidime-avibactamGram-negative resistancemeropenem-vaborbactam

Identifiers

PMID32094128
PMCPMC7179589
OpenAlexW3007464332

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