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ArticleInfection control and hospital epidemiology2023

Strategies to prevent

Larry K Kociolek, Dale N Gerding, Ruth Carrico, Philip Carling, Curtis J Donskey, Ghinwa Dumyati, David T Kuhar, Vivian G Loo, Lisa L Maragakis, Monika Pogorzelska-Maziarz and 4 more

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Article in Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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44citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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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

44 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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

14 authors.

Larry K KociolekNorthwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8756-3417
Dale N GerdingEdward Hines Jr. Veterans' Affairs (VA) Hospital, Hines, Illinois, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4409-1605
Ruth CarricoNorton Healthcare, Louisville, Kentucky, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4319-7694
Philip CarlingBoston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0303-5992
Curtis J DonskeyCase Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland VA Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0990-4498
Ghinwa DumyatiUniversity of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3634-2841
David T KuharDivision of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Vivian G LooMcGill University, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Lisa L MaragakisJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Monika Pogorzelska-MaziarzThomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Thomas J SandoraBoston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1755-5881
David J WeberSchool of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States.
Deborah YokoeUniversity of California San Francisco, UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States.
Erik R DubberkeWashington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3779-2796

Funding

Intramural CDC HHS CC999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Clostridioides difficileClostridium InfectionsHospitalsHumans

Identifiers

PMID37042243
PMCPMC10917144

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