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ArticleInternal and emergency medicine2025

Seven versus fourteen days of antibiotic therapy in bloodstream infections: the BALANCE trial.

Paolo Sciarrone, Bianca Sciacca, Filippo Manicardi, Ersilia Di Buduo, Elisa Tarasconi, Scuola di metodologia della ricerca, SIMI

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Article in Internal and emergency medicine, 2025. 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Paolo SciarroneHealth Science Interdisciplinary Center, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Division, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio, Pisa, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8803-4533
Bianca SciaccaUniversity of Padova, Ca' Foncello Hospital, Treviso, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-2473-2757
Filippo ManicardiDepartment of Maternal, Child and Adult Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-1450-4572
Ersilia Di BuduoInternal Medicine and Geriatric Unit "C. Frugoni", Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-1704-3450
Elisa TarasconiS.C. Medicina Generale II, Ospedale San Paolo, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, Dipartimento di Scienze della Salute, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy. elisa.tarasconi@unimi.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-1868-7701
Scuola di metodologia della ricerca, SIMI

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Antibiotic stewardshipAntibiotic therapyBALANCE trialBloodstream infection

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