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ReviewZeitschrift fur Rheumatologie2024

[Infections and fever].

Stefan Schmiedel

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Review in Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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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

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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. [Clinical Study of Different Doses of Glucocorticoids in the Treatment of SevereSichuan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Sichuan University. Medical science edition · 2025
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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

1 author.

Stefan SchmiedelI. Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Martinistr. 52, 20246, Hamburg, Deutschland. s.schmiedel@uke.de.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fever can be due to infectious or noninfectious causes and results from the body's natural response to exogenous or endogenous pyrogens. Laboratory tests including complete blood count, differential blood count, C‑reactive protein, erythrocyte sedimentation rate and procalcitonin do not have sufficient sensitivity and specificity to definitively detect or rule out an infectious (bacterial, viral, parasitic) cause of fever. Blood cultures should be carried out when bacteremic or septic illnesses are suspected. Fever is not always present in infections and can be absent, especially in older and immunocompromised patients. If fever is suspected, core temperatures should be taken, e.g., rectally, orally or invasively. Depending on the clinical situation, infectious causes must be excluded as the most likely cause of an acutely occurring fever. The investigation of long-standing fever (fever of unknown origin, FUO) can be complex and some infectious diseases should first be ruled out, whereby a syndromic classification often helps to clarify the cause of the fever.

Indexed as

FeverFever of Unknown OriginDiagnosis, DifferentialEvidence-Based MedicineHumansInfectionsBlood culturesFever of unknown originInfectious causesNoninfectious causesPyrogens

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