Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33558386›Full record

ArticleBMJ case reports2021

Harendra Maneesha De Silva, Saliya Hewagama, Neil Strugnell

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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

0 citing papers in PubMed, 0 citations in OpenAlex.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Harendra Maneesha De SilvaDepartment of General Surgery, The Northern Hospital, Epping, Victoria, Australia harendramaneesha.desilva@nh.org.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9798-1321
Saliya HewagamaDepartment of General Medicine, The Northern Hospital, Epping, Victoria, Australia.
Neil StrugnellDepartment of General Surgery, The Northern Hospital, Epping, Victoria, Australia.
Northern Hospital · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 45-year-old man had recurrent presentations with pleuritic chest pain and shortness of breath. Four months prior, he had developed cauda equina syndrome from a spinal epidural abscess in the setting of intravenous drug use, complicated by lasting neurological deficits and a rectal prolapse. On his final presentation, blood cultures taken in the absence of antibiotics grew

Indexed as

Enterococcus faecalisAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacteremiaCauda Equina SyndromeChronic DiseaseColonoscopyDiagnosis, DifferentialEchocardiography, TransesophagealEndocarditis, BacterialEpidural AbscessGram-Positive Bacterial InfectionsHumansMaleMiddle AgedRectal ProlapseSubstance Abuse, IntravenousAnti-Bacterial Agentsgeneral surgeryvalvar diseases

Identifiers

PMID33558386
PMCPMC7872921
OpenAlexW3129008341

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Registered trials

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