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ArticleCureus2020

Rising Klebsiella pneumoniae Infections and Its Expanding Drug Resistance in the Intensive Care Unit of a Tertiary Healthcare Hospital, Saudi Arabia.

Ali Al Bshabshe, Ahmed Al-Hakami, Basel Alshehri, Khalid A Al-Shahrani, Abdullah A Alshehri, Mohammed B Al Shahrani, Ibrahim Assiry, Martin R Joseph, Abdullah Alkahtani, Mohamed E Hamid

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Article in Cureus, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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38citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 20% 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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 58 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

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ali Al BshabsheDepartment of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, SAU.
Ahmed Al-HakamiDepartment of Clinical Microbiology and Parasitology, King Khalid University, Abha, SAU.
Basel AlshehriInternal Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, SAU.
Khalid A Al-ShahraniInternal Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, SAU.
Abdullah A AlshehriInternal Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, SAU.
Mohammed B Al ShahraniIntensive Care Unit, Aseer Central Hospital, Abha, SAU.
Ibrahim AssiryIntensive Care Unit, Aseer Central Hospital, Abha, SAU.
Martin R JosephDepartment of Clinical Microbiology and Parasitology, King Khalid University, Abha, SAU.
Abdullah AlkahtaniDepartment of Clinical Microbiology and Parasitology, King Khalid University, Abha, SAU.
Mohamed E HamidDepartment of Clinical Microbiology and Parasitology, King Khalid University, Abha, SAU.
Asir Central Hospital · SAKing Khalid University · SA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nosocomial infections caused by

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antibiogramaseer regioncarbapenem-resistantnosocomial infections

Identifiers

PMID32999783
PMCPMC7520404
OpenAlexW3080750024

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