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ReviewClinical medicine (London, England)2024

Key concepts in diagnosing infection - when to treat and when not to.

Dr Emma Hayton, Dr Nimal Wickramasinghe

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Review in Clinical medicine (London, England), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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.

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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

2 authors.

Dr Emma HaytonDepartment of Infectious Diseases, University Hospitals Birmingham, Hawthorne House, Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham B9 5SS; Department of Acute Medicine, Heartlands Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham. Electronic address: emma.hayton@uhb.nhs.uk.
Dr Nimal WickramasingheDepartment of Microbiology, University Hospitals Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham B9 2WB.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

What tests to send and when? This article examines the evidence for common microbiological tests and discusses their limitations and interpretation. Urine tests, surface swabs, blood cultures and screening swabs are all discussed in the context of a fictional clinical case.

Indexed as

InfectionsHumans

Identifiers

PMID39528021
PMCPMC11617389

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