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ArticlePathogens (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Proposed Risk of Bias Assessment Tool for

Matthew E Falagas, Dimitrios Ragias, Dimitrios S Kontogiannis, Laura T Romanos, Paraskevi A Farazi

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Article in Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 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

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

  1. Resistance of gram-negative and gram-positive pathogens to omadacycline: a systematic review.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2026
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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

5 authors.

Matthew E FalagasAlfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences (AIBS), Marousi, 151 23 Athens, Greece.
Dimitrios RagiasAlfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences (AIBS), Marousi, 151 23 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-9047-7926
Dimitrios S KontogiannisAlfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences (AIBS), Marousi, 151 23 Athens, Greece.
Laura T RomanosAlfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences (AIBS), Marousi, 151 23 Athens, Greece.
Paraskevi A FaraziSchool of Medicine, European University Cyprus, 2404 Nicosia, Cyprus.ORCID 0000-0002-4375-5812

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The assessment of risk of bias in systematic reviews and meta-analyses is crucial, as it indicates the accuracy of the synthesized and evaluated data and the validity of the presented results and conclusions. Until now, standardized tools for this purpose have been available only for clinical and animal studies, while adapted forms of these tools and novel ones have been proposed for

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Anti-Infective AgentsBiasMicrobial Sensitivity TestsAnimalsHumansMeta-Analysis as TopicResearch DesignRisk AssessmentSystematic Reviews as TopicAnti-Infective Agentscontamination/cross-contamination biasheterogeneitymeasurement/observer biasmethodological biaspublication biasreporting biasrisk of biasselection bias

Identifiers

PMID42075723
PMCPMC13119129

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