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ArticleJournal of medical microbiology2024

Identification methods as a factor affecting the performance of clinical microbiology laboratories participating in an external quality assessment program: a cross-sectional, retrospective analysis.

Jennifer Wu, Md Saiful Alam, Veronica Restelli, Selvarani Vimalanathan, Lucy A Perrone

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Article in Journal of medical microbiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

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No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jennifer WuCanadian Microbiology Proficiency Testing Program (CMPT), Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Md Saiful AlamSchool of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Veronica RestelliCanadian Microbiology Proficiency Testing Program (CMPT), Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Selvarani VimalanathanCanadian Microbiology Proficiency Testing Program (CMPT), Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Lucy A PerroneCanadian Microbiology Proficiency Testing Program (CMPT), Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Laboratories, ClinicalLaboratory Proficiency TestingSpectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-IonizationBacteriaBacteriological TechniquesCanadaCross-Sectional StudiesHumansQuality Assurance, Health CareQuality ControlRetrospective Studiesclinical microbiology laboratorydiagnostic testingproficiency testingquality assurance

Identifiers

PMID39470390
PMCPMC11520924

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