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ArticleFrontiers in neurology2021

Risk Factors Promoting External Ventricular Drain Infections in Adult Neurosurgical Patients at the Intensive Care Unit-A Retrospective Study.

Farjad Khalaveh, Nadia Fazel, Mario Mischkulnig, Matthias Gerhard Vossen, Andrea Reinprecht, Christian Dorfer, Karl Roessler, Johannes Herta

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Article in Frontiers in neurology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Complication profile of two surgical techniques, neurosurgical experience, and operative setting for pediatric external ventricular drainage implantation.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2026
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  5. Cerebrospinal Drain Infection byJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  7. Development of an Evidence-based Care Bundle for Prevention of External Ventricular Drain-related Infection: Results of a Single-center Prospective Cohort Study and Literature Review.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2024
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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

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Farjad KhalavehDepartment of Neurosurgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Nadia FazelDepartment of Neurosurgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Mario MischkulnigDepartment of Neurosurgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Matthias Gerhard VossenDepartment of Medicine I, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Andrea ReinprechtDepartment of Neurosurgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Christian DorferDepartment of Neurosurgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Karl RoesslerDepartment of Neurosurgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Johannes HertaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Medical University of Vienna · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

colonizationcontaminationEVD associated infectionexternal ventricular drainrisk factors promoting EVD infectionsventriculitis

Identifiers

PMID34858309
PMCPMC8631749
OpenAlexW3214658048

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