Antimicrobial Prescribing in the Emergency Department; Who Is Calling the Shots?

Laura M Hamill, Julia Bonnett, Megan F Baxter, Melina Kreutz, Kerina J Denny, Gerben Keijzers

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Article in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. 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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4citing papers 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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

Analysis of rational use and misuse of antibiotics in emergency departments: A cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2026
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Effect and sustainability of a stepwise implemented multidisciplinary antimicrobial stewardship programme in a university hospital emergency department.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2024
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How Clinicians Decide? Exploring Complexity of Antibiotic Prescribing in Emergency Departments Using Video-Reflexive Ethnography.Qualitative health research · 2023
Article
Impact of antibiotic allergy labels on timely and appropriate antibiotics for sepsis in the emergency department.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2023
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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

6 authors.

Laura M HamillDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Christchurch Hospital, Canterbury DHB, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand.

Julia BonnettSchool of Medicine, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD 4215, Australia.

Megan F BaxterSchool of Medicine, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD 4215, Australia.

Melina KreutzSchool of Medicine, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD 4215, Australia.

Kerina J DennyDepartment of Intensive Care, Gold Coast University Hospital, Gold Coast, QLD 4215, Australia.

Gerben KeijzersSchool of Medicine, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD 4215, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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antibioticsantimicrobial stewardshipappropriatenessemergency departmentprescribing

Identifiers

PMID34356764

DOI10.3390/antibiotics10070843

PMCPMC8300735

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