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ReviewPaediatric respiratory reviews2020

Pro con debates in clinical medicine infection prevention and control in cystic fibrosis: One size fits all? The argument in favour.

S Haggie, D A Fitzgerald

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Review in Paediatric respiratory reviews, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

2 authors.

S HaggieDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Discipline of Child & Adolescent Health, Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. Electronic address: stuart.haggie@health.nsw.gov.au.
D A FitzgeraldDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Discipline of Child & Adolescent Health, Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article advocates for a universal approach to infection control measures in cystic fibrosis. The central tenets of infection control include hand hygiene, contact precautions, regular microbiological surveillance and adopting inpatient, outpatient, domestic and social practices to minimise acquisition of common CF pathogens. Infection control measures should be proactive and prospective, assuming all patients harbour aggressive pathogens, and not relying on past culture results. The challenges of implementing these policies include cost, equipment, education, consistency, meticulousness all whilst balancing additional procedures to a busy clinical workload.

Indexed as

Cross InfectionCystic FibrosisHand HygieneHumansInfection ControlMasksPersonal Protective EquipmentPhysical DistancingCystic fibrosisEvidence practiseInfection prevention

Identifiers

PMID32631758
PMCPMC7297174

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