A Cloudy Crystal Ball: Critically Assessing and Rethinking the Antibiogram.

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.

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.

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Stratified cumulative antibiograms and antimicrobial resistance trends among hospitalized patients in a Chinese tertiary hospital: a 7-year retrospective study.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2026
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2. Antimicrobial Usage Among Acutely Ill Hospitalized Children Aged 2‒23 Months in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.Open forum infectious diseases · 2025
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3. Exploring variability in antibiograms: a cross-sectional study.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2025
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Corrections and comments

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  Diagnostic Accuracy of Hospital Antibiograms in Predicting the Risk of Antimicrobial Resistance in Enterobacteriaceae Isolates: A Nationwide Multicenter Evaluation at the Veterans Health Administration.2023

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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