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Trial reportOpen forum infectious diseases2024

Short Versus Long Antibiotic Duration in

Matthew Crotty, Hadley Devall, Natalie Cook, Francis Fischer, Julie Alexander, Leigh Hunter, Edward Dominguez

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Trial report in Open forum infectious diseases, 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.

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. The Prognostic Role of Pitt Bacteremia Score in Patients With NonbacteremicThe Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Matthew CrottyDepartment of Pharmacy, Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6353-2958
Hadley DevallDepartment of Pharmacy, Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2641-5648
Natalie CookDepartment of Pharmacy, Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Francis FischerDepartment of Internal Medicine, Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Julie AlexanderDepartment of Internal Medicine, Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Leigh HunterDepartment of Internal Medicine, Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1345-950X
Edward DominguezOrgan Transplant Infectious Diseases, Methodist Transplant Specialists, Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Methods: This retrospective, single-center cohort study assessed hospitalized patients with Results: A total of 162 patients were included, with 51 patients in the short- and 111 patients in the long-duration group. Pneumonia was the suspected source of bacteremia in 90.1% of patients. Rates of clinical failure were not significantly different between the 2 groups. Patients received a median antibiotic course of 7 days in the short group compared to 14 days in the long group; however, there was no significant difference observed in the median hospital length of stay, median intensive care unit length of stay, or rate of Conclusions: Shorter antibiotic courses may be appropriate in patients with

Indexed as

antimicrobial stewardshipbloodstream infectionduration of treatmentpneumoniaStreptococcus pneumoniae

Identifiers

PMID39257675
PMCPMC11385198

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