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ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Implementation of a Delayed Prescribing Model to Reduce Antibiotic Prescribing for Suspected Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in a Hospital Outpatient Department, Ghana.

Sam Ghebrehewet, Wendi Shepherd, Edwin Panford-Quainoo, Saran Shantikumar, Valerie Decraene, Rajesh Rajendran, Menaal Kaushal, Afua Akuffo, Dinah Ayerh, George Amofah

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Article in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Immediate versus delayed versus no antibiotics for respiratory infections.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023
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  3. Delayed antibiotic prescriptions for respiratory infections.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017
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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 4 institutions in 1 country.

Sam GhebrehewetPublic Health England North West Health Protection Team, Liverpool L3 1JR, UK.
Wendi ShepherdPublic Health England North West Health Protection Team, Liverpool L3 1JR, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9142-0219
Edwin Panford-QuainooLiverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9062-3268
Saran ShantikumarWarwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7HL, UK.
Valerie DecraenePublic Health England National Infection Service, Liverpool L3 1JR, UK.
Rajesh RajendranMid Cheshire NHS Foundation Trust, Crewe CW1 4QJ, UK.
Menaal KaushalLEKMA Hospital, Accra, Ghana.ORCID 0000-0002-7844-5435
Afua AkuffoLEKMA Hospital, Accra, Ghana.
Dinah AyerhLEKMA Hospital, Accra, Ghana.
George AmofahLEKMA Hospital, Accra, Ghana.
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine · GBPublic Health England · GBMid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · GBUniversity of Warwick · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

antimicrobial resistance (AMR)antimicrobial stewardship (AMS)delayed/back-up prescribingdeveloping countriesGhanaLMICsupper respiratory tract infections

Identifiers

PMID33158038
PMCPMC7694150
OpenAlexW3081696885

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Registered trials

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