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ArticleSAGE open medicine2020

Linezolid to treat urinary tract infections caused by vancomycin-resistant

Benjamin Alan Pontefract, Suzette Amy Rovelsky, Karl Joseph Madaras-Kelly

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Article in SAGE open medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 41% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Daptomycin and linezolid salvage therapy for persistent ampicillin-susceptibleJournal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Benjamin Alan PontefractCollege of Pharmacy, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, MI, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6675-4409
Suzette Amy RovelskyBoise Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Boise, ID, USA.
Karl Joseph Madaras-KellyBoise Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Boise, ID, USA.
Boise VA Medical Center · USFerris State University · USIdaho State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundVancomycin-resistant

objectiveThe main aim of this study is to compare post-treatment outcomes of linezolid to other antibiotics with vancomycin-resistant

methodsA retrospective cohort of inpatients within Veterans Health Administration facilities with urinary tract infection caused by vancomycin-resistant

resultsOf 4,683 patients with a positive vancomycin-resistant

conclusionMost patients with vancomycin-resistant

Indexed as

antibiotic resistanceEnterococcusInfectious diseaseslinezolidurinary tract infections

Identifiers

PMID33209303
PMCPMC7645773
OpenAlexW3096161384

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