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ArticleAccess microbiology2021

Purposeful microbiology comment added to urine cultures with

Donald Brody Duncan, Yasmeen Marbaniang Vincent, Cheryl Main

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Article in Access microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 47% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The impact of an intervention to increase follow-up blood cultures for patients withAntimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2025
    Article
  2. JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2023
    Article
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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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Donald Brody DuncanDepartment of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7634-6484
Yasmeen Marbaniang VincentDepartment of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0786-3728
Cheryl MainDepartment of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5216-0637
McMaster University · CAHamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionPatients with

aimWe designed a retrospective quasi-experimental study to see if the change in microbiology comment wording had an effect on clinician behaviour. We hypothesized that this simple comment change to make a more assertive link between SABU and SAB would lead to an increase in follow-up blood culture orders. METHODOLOGY: We used microbiology records to identify adult patients with urine cultures positive for

resultsA total of 243 adult patients with urine cultures with

conclusionOur study shows that a simple, purposeful comment appended to urine cultures with

Indexed as

bacteriuriablood culturecommentStaphylococcus aureusurine

Identifiers

PMID34151175
PMCPMC8208763
OpenAlexW3154976971

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