ArticleOpen forum infectious diseases2026
Advancing Antimicrobial Stewardship With Diagnostic Excellence: The Role of Bayesian Reasoning.
Article in Open forum infectious diseases, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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.
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.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Antimicrobial resistance and inappropriate antibiotic use are urgent threats to global health and patient safety. Early antibiotic prescribing often occurs despite uncertain infection status, leading to unnecessary exposure and contributing to resistance. This article advocates for strengthening antimicrobial stewardship by integrating diagnostic stewardship and Bayesian reasoning to more explicitly consider disease probability in clinical decisions. In particular, probability thresholds should be included in clinical guidelines to inform testing decisions that may prompt antibiotic initiation. We provide several clinical examples and highlight the need for clinician education in Bayesian reasoning, underpinned by real-time decision support tools. Anchoring clinical practice in probability-based frameworks promises to refine antibiotic prescribing, enhance patient safety outcomes, and curb the progression of antimicrobial resistance.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.