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ArticleOpen forum infectious diseases2021

Changing Results to Change Results: Nudging Antimicrobial Prescribing for

Dakoda J Herman, Alicia Sarabia, Helen Chan, Christopher Graham

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Article in Open forum infectious diseases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 40% 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, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 10 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Dakoda J HermanUniversity of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Cananda.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1397-7198
Alicia SarabiaTrillium Health Partners, Mississauga, Ontario, Cananda.
Helen ChanTrillium Health Partners, Mississauga, Ontario, Cananda.
Christopher GrahamUniversity of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Cananda.
Trillium Health Centre · CAUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPatients who test positive for

methodsWe conducted a retrospective cohort study of all adult patients admitted to a large multisite community hospital with a positive

resultsOne hundred ninety-nine episodes occurred preintervention and 165 episodes occurred postintervention. The mean DOTs per episode decreased from 13.6 to 7.9 days (difference -5.8 days; 95% confidence interval, -3.9 to -7.6) postintervention, with statistical process control charts suggesting special cause variation. Patients receiving no treatment increased from 6.5% to 23.6% postintervention (

conclusionsMicrobiology reporting nudges raising the possibility of

Indexed as

antimicrobial stewardshipClostridium difficilelaboratory reporting

Identifiers

PMID34095335
PMCPMC8176399
OpenAlexW3117594455

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