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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2024

Doxycycline versus cephalexin treatment of presumed streptococcal skin and soft tissue infection among adults presenting to the emergency department.

Eric Taylor, Michael D Nailor, Michelle Feider, Shannon Sullivan, Kellie J Goodlet

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2024. 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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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Eric TaylorDepartment of Pharmacy Services, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
Michael D NailorDepartment of Pharmacy Services, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
Michelle FeiderDepartment of Pharmacy Services, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
Shannon SullivanDepartment of Pharmacy Services, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
Kellie J GoodletDepartment of Pharmacy Practice, Midwestern University College of Pharmacy, Glendale, Arizona, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9736-0891

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Among 100 propensity score-matched emergency department patients receiving ≤14 days doxycycline versus cephalexin monotherapy for outpatient treatment of nonpurulent (presumed streptococcal) skin and soft tissue infection, a low rate of 14-day clinical failure was observed [6% each group; odds ratio (OR), 1.34 (0.21-8.69);

Indexed as

Soft Tissue InfectionsStreptococcal InfectionsAdultAnti-Bacterial AgentsCephalexinDoxycyclineEmergency Service, HospitalHumansStreptococcusAnti-Bacterial AgentsCephalexinDoxycyclinecellulitisemergency medicineStreptococcus pyogenestetracyclines

Identifiers

PMID38169286
PMCPMC10848771

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