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Early planned removal versus expectant management of peripherally inserted central catheters to prevent infection in newborn infants

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, June 2018
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Title
Early planned removal versus expectant management of peripherally inserted central catheters to prevent infection in newborn infants
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Cochrane database of systematic reviews, June 2018
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd012141.pub2
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Adrienne Gordon, Mark Greenhalgh, William McGuire

Abstract

Duration of use may be a modifiable risk factor for central venous catheter-associated bloodstream infection in newborn infants. Early planned removal of peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) is recommended as a strategy to reduce the incidence of infection and its associated morbidity and mortality. To determine the effectiveness of early planned removal of PICCs (up to two weeks after insertion) compared to an expectant approach or a longer fixed duration in preventing bloodstream infection and other complications in newborn infants. We searched of the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL; 2018, Issue 4), Ovid MEDLINE, Embase, Maternity & Infant Care Database, and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) (until April 2018), and conference proceedings and previous reviews. Randomised and quasi-randomised controlled trials that assessed the effect of early planned removal of umbilical venous catheters (up to two weeks after insertion) compared to an expectant management approach or a longer fixed duration in preventing bloodstream infection and other complications in newborn infants. Two review authors assessed trial eligibility independently. We planned to analyse any treatment effects in the individual trials and report the risk ratio and risk difference for dichotomous data and mean difference for continuous data, with respective 95% confidence intervals. We planned to use a fixed-effect model in meta-analyses and explore potential causes of heterogeneity in sensitivity analyses. We planned to assess the quality of evidence for the main comparison at the outcome level using "Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation" (GRADE) methods. We did not identify any eligible randomised controlled trials. There are no trial data to guide practice regarding early planned removal versus expectant management of PICCs in newborn infants. A simple and pragmatic randomised controlled trial is needed to resolve the uncertainty about optimal management in this common and important clinical dilemma.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 190 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 25 13%
Student > Master 21 11%
Researcher 19 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 8%
Other 8 4%
Other 29 15%
Unknown 73 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 49 26%
Nursing and Health Professions 35 18%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 6 3%
Social Sciences 6 3%
Psychology 3 2%
Other 10 5%
Unknown 81 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 October 2018.
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#2,122,023
of 25,461,852 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#4,457
of 12,090 outputs
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#42,823
of 342,437 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#83
of 158 outputs
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