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ArticleThe Cochrane database of systematic reviews2026

Midline catheters versus peripherally inserted central catheters for intravenous therapy in adults.

Hideto Yasuda, Yutaro Shinzato, Mari Abe, Shinya Miura, Manabu Tomida, Mari Saito, Yusuke Terasaka

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Article in The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2026. 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.

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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

7 authors.

Hideto YasudaDepartment of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Jichi Medical University Saitama Medical Center, Saitama, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-3153-1595
Yutaro ShinzatoDepartment of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Jichi Medical University Saitama Medical Center, Saitama, Japan.
Mari AbeDepartment of Gerontological Nursing/Wound Care Management, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Shinya MiuraDepartment of Pediatrics, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan.
Manabu TomidaInfection Control Department, Toho University Omori Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan.
Mari SaitoInfection Control Department, The Jikei University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Yusuke TerasakaDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Kyoto Katsura Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesThis is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: To evaluate the benefits and harms of midline catheters versus PICCs for intravenous therapy in adults.

Indexed as

Catheterization, Central VenousCatheterization, PeripheralAdministration, IntravenousAdultHumansRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicSystematic Reviews as Topic

Identifiers

PMID41537434
PMCPMC12805634

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