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ArticleCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2019

Health care-associated infections in Canadian hospitals: still a major problem.

Jennie Johnstone, Gary Garber, Matthew Muller

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Article in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Surveillance for Health Care-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistant Organisms and Antimicrobial use in Canadian Long-Term Care Homes: A Cross-Sectional Survey.Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada · 2025
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  5. The Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program: Keeping an eye on antimicrobial resistance in Canadian hospitals since 1995.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2022
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  6. Healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance in Canadian acute care hospitals, 2014-2018.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jennie JohnstonePublic Health Ontario (Johnstone, Garber); Sinai Health System (Johnstone); Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (Johnstone), and Medicine (Garber, Muller), University of Toronto; St. Michael's Hospital (Muller), Toronto, Ont.; Department of Medicine (Garber), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont. jennie.johnstone@oahpp.ca.
Gary GarberPublic Health Ontario (Johnstone, Garber); Sinai Health System (Johnstone); Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (Johnstone), and Medicine (Garber, Muller), University of Toronto; St. Michael's Hospital (Muller), Toronto, Ont.; Department of Medicine (Garber), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.
Matthew MullerPublic Health Ontario (Johnstone, Garber); Sinai Health System (Johnstone); Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (Johnstone), and Medicine (Garber, Muller), University of Toronto; St. Michael's Hospital (Muller), Toronto, Ont.; Department of Medicine (Garber), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Cross InfectionCanadaHospitalsHumansPrevalenceSurveys and Questionnaires

Identifiers

PMID32392482
PMCPMC6733688

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