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ReviewThe Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases

Evidence-based clinical standard for the diagnosis and treatment of candidemia in critically ill patients in the intensive care unit.

Jorge Alberto Cortés, Martha Carolina Valderrama-Rios, Paula M Peçanha-Pietrobom, Moacyr Silva Júnior, Cándida Diaz-Brochero, Rafael Ricardo Robles-Torres, Carmelo José Espinosa-Almanza, Laura Cristina Nocua-Báez, Marcio Nucci, Carlos Arturo Álvarez-Moreno and 11 more

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Review in The Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Brazilian guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of candidemia and invasive candidiasis in adults and children.The Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
    Guideline
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  6. Changing Climate, ChangingJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
    Review
  7. Is candidemia mortality inevitable or a consequence of inadequate guideline adherence?The Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
    Observational
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

21 authors.

Jorge Alberto CortésUniversidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Medicina Interna, Bogotá, Colombia; Hospital Universitario Nacional de Colombia, Unidad de Infectología, Bogotá, Colombia. Electronic address: jacortesl@unal.edu.co.
Martha Carolina Valderrama-RiosUniversidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Medicina Interna, Bogotá, Colombia; Hospital Universitario Nacional de Colombia, Unidad de Infectología, Bogotá, Colombia.
Paula M Peçanha-PietrobomUniversidade Federal de São Paulo, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Departamento de Medicina, Divisão de Enfermidades Infecciosas, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Moacyr Silva JúniorHospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Cándida Diaz-BrocheroPontificia Universidad Javeriana, Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Departamento de Medicina Interna, Bogotá, Colombia.
Rafael Ricardo Robles-TorresUniversidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Medicina Interna, Bogotá, Colombia.
Carmelo José Espinosa-AlmanzaUniversidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Medicina Interna, Bogotá, Colombia.
Laura Cristina Nocua-BáezUniversidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Medicina Interna, Bogotá, Colombia.
Marcio NucciUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Hospital Universitário, Departament of Internal Medicine, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Grupo Oncoclínicas, Brazil.
Carlos Arturo Álvarez-MorenoUniversidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Medicina Interna, Bogotá, Colombia; Clínica Universitaria Colombia, Clínica Colsanitas Grupo Keralty, Bogotá, Colombia.
Flavio Queiroz-TellesUniversidade Federal de Paraná, Hospital de Clínicas, Departamento de Saúde Pública, Curitiba, PR, Brasil.
Ricardo RabagliatiPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Escuela de Medicina, Department of Adult Infectious Diseases, Santiago, Chile.
Rita Rojas-FermínHospital General Plaza de la Salud, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana.
Jorge L FinquelievichUniversidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Medicina, Centro de Micología, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fernando RieraDivisión de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Sanatorio Allende Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina; Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Enfermedades Infecciosas, Córdoba, Argentina.
Patricia Cornejo-JuárezInstituto Nacional de Cancerología, Departamento de Infectología, Ciudad de México, Mexico.
Dora E Corzo-LeónUniversidad de Exeter, Centro de Micología Médica del Medical Research Council, Exeter, Reino Unido.
Luis E CuéllarInstituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas, Lima, Perú.
Jeannete ZuritaPontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Facultad de Medicina, Quito, Ecuador; Zurita & Zurita Laboratorios, Unidad de Investigaciones en Biomedicina, Quito, Ecuador.
Augusto Raúl HernándezHospital Pacifica Salud, Departamento de Medicina Crítica, Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá.
Arnaldo Lopes ColomboUniversidade Federal de São Paulo, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Departamento de Medicina, Divisão de Enfermidades Infecciosas, São Paulo, SP, Brasil; Antimicrobial Resistance Institute of São Paulo (ARIES), São Paulo, SP, Brasil.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Candidemia is the predominant form of invasive candidiasis and the most frequently occurring serious fungal infection in critically ill patients in Intensive Care Units (ICU). Studies carried out in Latin America reveal a higher incidence of candidemia and higher mortality rates when compared to North America or Europe. This highlights the need to develop guidelines for correctly diagnosing and treating candidemia in critically ill patients in the ICU. These guidelines are part of the efforts to implement antifungal optimization programs in the region to obtain better clinical outcomes and promote rational antifungal use. This evidence-based clinical standard, established through expert consensus for the Latin American context, contains recommendations and algorithms for diagnosing and treating candidemia in critically ill ICU patients.

Indexed as

Antifungal AgentsCandidemiaIntensive Care UnitsAlgorithmsCritical IllnessEvidence-Based MedicineHumansAntifungal AgentsAntifungalsCandidemiaCritical illnessIntensive care unitsLatin America

Identifiers

PMID39709887
PMCPMC11846572

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