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ReviewWorld journal of emergency surgery : WJES2022

WSES/GAIS/WSIS/SIS-E/AAST global clinical pathways for patients with skin and soft tissue infections.

Massimo Sartelli, Federico Coccolini, Yoram Kluger, Ervis Agastra, Fikri M Abu-Zidan, Ashraf El Sayed Abbas, Luca Ansaloni, Abdulrashid Kayode Adesunkanmi, Goran Augustin, Miklosh Bala and 77 more

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Review in World journal of emergency surgery : WJES, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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65citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
22.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

65 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 123 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. CutaneousInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  11. Factors associated with in-hospital mortality in necrotising soft tissue infections. a multicentre retrospective cohort study.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2026
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  14. Risk factors and predictors of in-hospital mortality in necrotizing fasciitis: a five-year retrospective cohort study from a tertiary care center in Colombia.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2026
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  17. Skin, soft tissue, bone and joint infections in trauma patients during rehabilitation.Ulusal travma ve acil cerrahi dergisi = Turkish journal of trauma & emergency surgery : TJTES · 2026
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5 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

87 authors at 20 institutions in 35 countries.

Massimo SartelliDepartment of Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Macerata, Italy. massimosartelli@gmail.com.
Federico CoccoliniDepartment of General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy.
Yoram KlugerDepartment of General Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
Ervis AgastraGeneral Surgery Department, Regional Hospital of Durres, Durres, Albania.
Fikri M Abu-ZidanDepartment of Surgery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates.
Ashraf El Sayed AbbasDepartment of General and Emergency Surgery Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University Hospital, Mansoura, Egypt.
Luca AnsaloniDepartment of Surgery, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Abdulrashid Kayode AdesunkanmiDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria.
Goran AugustinDepartment of Surgery, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
Miklosh BalaTrauma and Acute Care Surgery Unit, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
Oussama BaraketDepartment of General Surgery Bizerte Hospital, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, University Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia.
Walter L BifflDivision of Trauma/Acute Care Surgery, Scripps Clinic Medical Group, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Marco CeresoliEmergency and General Surgery Department, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Elisabetta CeruttiAnesthesia and Transplant Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona, Italy.
Osvaldo ChiaraDepartment of Pathophysiology, ASST Niguarda Ca'Granda Hospital, University of Milano, Milan, Italy.
Enrico CicuttinDepartment of General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy.
Massimo ChiarugiDepartment of General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy.
Raul CoimbraRiverside University Health System, CECORC Research Center, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, USA.
Daniela CorsiGeneral Direction, Area Vasta 3, ASUR Marche, Macerata, Italy.
Francesco CorteseEmergency Surgery Unit, San Filippo Neri's Hospital, Rome, Italy.
Yunfeng CuiDepartment of Surgery, Tianjin Nankai Hospital, Nankai Clinical School of Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Dimitris DamaskosDepartment of Surgery, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Nicola de'AngelisMinimally Invasive and Robotic Digestive Surgery Unit, Regional General Hospital F. Miulli, Bari, Italy.
Samir DelibegovicDepartment of Surgery, University Clinical Center of Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Zaza DemetrashviliDepartment General Surgery, Kipshidze Central University Hospital, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Belinda De SimoneDepartment of General, Digestive and Metabolic Minimally Invasive Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal De Poissy/St Germain en Laye, Poissy, France.
Stijn W de JongeDepartment of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Stefano Di BellaClinical Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, Trieste University, Trieste, Italy.
Salomone Di SaverioDepartment of General Surgery, "Madonna del Soccorso" San Benedetto del Tronto Hospital, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy.
Therese M DuaneDepartment of Surgery, Texas Health Resources, Ft Worth, TX, USA.
Paola FugazzolaDepartment of Surgery, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Joseph M GalanteDivision of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA.
Wagih GhnnamDepartment of General Surgery, Mansoura Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.
George GkiokasSecond Department of Surgery, Aretaieion University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Carlos Augusto GomesDepartment of Surgery, Hospital Universitário Terezinha de Jesus, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas E da Saúde de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil.
Ewen A GriffithsDepartment of Upper GI Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK.
Timothy C HardcastleTrauma Service, Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital and Department of Surgery, Nelson R Mandela School of Clinical Medicine, Durban, South Africa.
Andreas HeckerDepartment of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
Torsten HerzogDepartment of Surgery, St. Josef Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Aleksandar KaramarkovicSurgical Clinic "Nikola Spasic", Faculty of Medicine University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Vladimir KhokhaDepartment of Emergency Surgery, City Hospital, Mozyr, Belarus.
Peter K KimDepartment of Surgery, Jacobi Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
Jae Il KimDepartment of Surgery, Ilsan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Goyang, Republic of Korea.
Andrew W KirkpatrickGeneral, Acute Care, Abdominal Wall Reconstruction, and Trauma Surgery, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Victor KongDepartment of Surgery, Edendale Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
Renol M KoshyDepartment of General Surgery, University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire, Coventry, UK.
Kenji InabaDivision of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Arda IsikDepartment of General Surgery, School of Medicine, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Rao IvaturyDepartment of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA, USA.
Francesco M LabricciosaGlobal Alliance for Infections in Surgery, Macerata, Italy.
Yeong Yeh LeeSchool of Medical Sciences, Universitiy Sains Malaysia, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia.
Ari LeppäniemiAbdominal Center, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Andrey LitvinDepartment of Surgical Disciplines, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Regional Clinical Hospital, Kaliningrad, Russia.
Davide LuppiDepartment of General and Emergency Surgery, ASMN, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Ronald V MaierDepartment of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Athanasios MarinisFirst Department of Surgery, Tzaneion General Hospital, Piraeus, Greece.
Sanjay MarwahDepartment of Surgery, Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, India.
Cristian MesinaSecond Surgical Clinic, Emergency Hospital of Craiova, Craiova, Romania.
Ernest E MooreErnest E Moore Shock Trauma Center at Denver Health, Denver, USA.
Frederick A MooreDepartment of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery, and Center for Sepsis and Critical Illness Research, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Ionut NegoiDepartment of Surgery, Emergency Hospital of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
Iyiade OlaoyeDepartment of Surgery, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria.
Carlos A OrdoñezDivision of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Fundacion Valle del Lili, Cali, Colombia.
Mouaqit OuadiiDepartment of Surgery, Hassan II University Hospital, Medical School of Fez, Sidi Mohamed Benabdellah University, Fez, Morocco.
Andrew B PeitzmanDepartment of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UPMC-Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, USA.
Gennaro PerroneDepartment of Emergency Surgery, Parma Maggiore Hospital, Parma, Italy.
Tadeja PintarDepartment of Surgery, UMC Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Giuseppe PipitoneDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, ARNAS Civico-Di Cristina Hospital, Palermo, Italy.
Mauro PoddaDepartment of General and Emergency Surgery, Cagliari University Hospital, Cagliari, Italy.
Kemal RaşaDepartment of Surgery, Anadolu Medical Center, Kocaeli, Turkey.
Julival RibeiroInfection Control, Hospital de Base, Brasília, DF, Brazil.
Gabriel RodriguesDepartment of General Surgery, Kasturba Medical College and Hospital, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India.
Ines Rubio-PerezGeneral Surgery Department, Colorectal Surgery Unit, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain.
Ibrahima SallGeneral Surgery Department, Military Teaching Hospital, Dakar, Senegal.
Norio SatoDepartment of Aeromedical Services for Emergency and Trauma Care, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan.
Robert G SawyerDepartment of Surgery, Western Michigan University School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, USA.
Vishal G ShelatDepartment of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
Michael SugrueDonegal Clinical Research Academy Emergency Surgery Outcome Project, Letterkenny University Hospital, Donegal, Ireland.
Antonio TarasconiDepartment of Emergency Surgery, Parma Maggiore Hospital, Parma, Italy.
Matti TolonenAbdominal Center, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Bruno ViaggiDepartment of Anesthesiology, Neuro Intensive Care Unit, Florence Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy.
Andrea CelottiDepartment of Surgery, AAST Cremona, Cremona, Italy.
Claudio CasellaDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
Leonardo PaganiDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Bolzano Hospital, Bolzano, Italy.
Sameer DhingraDepartment of Pharmacy Practice, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Hajipur, Bihar, India.
Gian Luca BaiocchiDepartment of Surgery, AAST Cremona, Cremona, Italy.
Fausto CatenaDepartment of Surgery, "Bufalini" Hospital, Cesena, Italy.
Istituti Ospitalieri di Cremona · ITUniversity of Helsinki · FIUniversity of Pavia · IT9th City Clinical Hospital · BYAleksandër Moisiu University · ALAmsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam · NLAnadolu University · TRAzienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi · ITAzienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti · ITCentre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Poissy · FRClinical Emergency Hospital Bucharest · RODenver Health Medical Center · USEdendale Hospital · ZAEdinburgh Royal Infirmary · GBEhime University · JPFoothills Medical Centre · CAFundación Valle del Lili · COHadassah Medical Center · ILHospital de Base · BRHospital Universitario La Paz · ES

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Skin and soft-tissue infections (SSTIs) encompass a variety of pathological conditions that involve the skin and underlying subcutaneous tissue, fascia, or muscle, ranging from simple superficial infections to severe necrotizing infections.Together, the World Society of Emergency Surgery, the Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery, the Surgical Infection Society-Europe, The World Surgical Infection Society, and the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma have jointly completed an international multi-society document to promote global standards of care in SSTIs guiding clinicians by describing reasonable approaches to the management of SSTIs.An extensive non-systematic review was conducted using the PubMed and MEDLINE databases, limited to the English language. The resulting evidence was shared by an international task force with different clinical backgrounds.

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Soft Tissue InfectionsCritical PathwaysHumansUnited StatesNecrotizing infectionsNecrotizing soft-tissue infectionsSkin and soft-tissue infections

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PMID35033131
PMCPMC8761341
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