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ReviewJournal of thoracic disease2017

South African guideline for the management of community-acquired pneumonia in adults.

Tom H Boyles, Adrian Brink, Greg L Calligaro, Cheryl Cohen, Keertan Dheda, Gary Maartens, Guy A Richards, Richard van Zyl Smit, Clifford Smith, Sean Wasserman and 4 more

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Review in Journal of thoracic disease, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 47 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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47citing papers in PubMed, 11 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

47 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. A systematic review of Neisseria gonorrhoeae drug resistance development in South Africa.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Tom H BoylesDivision of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Adrian BrinkDivision of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Greg L CalligaroLung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology and UCT Lung Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Cheryl CohenCentre for Respiratory Disease and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Keertan DhedaLung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology and UCT Lung Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Gary MaartensDivision of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Guy A RichardsDepartment of Critical Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Richard van Zyl SmitLung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology and UCT Lung Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Clifford SmithMorningside Mediclinic, Sandton, South Africa.
Sean WassermanDivision of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Andrew C WhitelawDivision of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Charles FeldmanCharlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
South African Thoracic Society
Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of Southern Africa

Funding

Research on the Epidemiology,Prevention,Vaccine Effectiveness and Treatment of Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses in South Africa.09U01IP001048 · IP · NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE · PI COHEN, CHERYL · 2016 to 2020
$19.9M
NCIRD CDC HHS U01 IP001048
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID28740661
PMCPMC5506119

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

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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 Socratic graph.