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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2023

The clinical epidemiology, management, and outcomes of patients diagnosed with encephalitis in North Carolina, 2015-2020.

Anuva Fellner, Samuel White, Emmanuel Rockwell, Dana Giandomenico, Monica M Diaz, David J Weber, Melissa B Miller, Ross M Boyce

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 39% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anuva Fellner *Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Samuel White *Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0009-0006-1351-1020
Emmanuel RockwellDepartment of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Dana GiandomenicoInstitute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Monica M DiazDepartment of Neurology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
David J WeberDepartment of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Melissa B MillerDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0296-3535
Ross M BoyceDepartment of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9489-6324
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Re-Entry Supplement: Investigation of Oral Microbial Enzymes for the Detection and Treatment of Periodontal DiseaseUL1TR002489 · NCATS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI BUSE, JOHN BERNARD, SHAHEEN, NICHOLAS J · 2018 to 2022
$48.6M
North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS)UM1TR004406 · NCATS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI NICHOLAS J SHAHEEN · 2023 to 2026
$37.5M
Serial Killers to Mosquitos: The Spatial Targeting of Larval habitats in rural Uganda using geographic ProfilingK23AI141764 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI BOYCE, ROSS MATHEW · 2019 to 2023
$944k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002489NCATS NIH HHS UM1 TR004406NIAID NIH HHS K23 AI141764
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

importanceDespite the relatively high mortality and the difficulty in diagnosis, nearly one-third of patients hospitalized with a documented diagnosis of encephalitis did not undergo a lumbar puncture (LP). When an LP was performed, pathogen-specific testing was greatly underutilized. Infectious etiologies were most common, but over 40% of cases were idiopathic at discharge. These findings suggest that there is a substantial opportunity to improve the quality of care through more accurate and timely diagnosis.

Indexed as

Body FluidsEncephalitisHumansNorth CarolinaSpinal Punctureencephalitisepidemiologyinfectious diseases

Identifiers

PMID38014985
PMCPMC10729753
OpenAlexW4389098556

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