Probiotics do not significantly reduce nosocomial pneumonia
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Probiotics do not significantly reduce nosocomial pneumonia
Liu and colleagues, in their recent meta-analysis, concluded that probiotics were associated with a statistically significant reduction in the incidence of nosocomial pneumonia (NP) (odds ratio = 0.75; 95% confidence interval = 0.57 to 0.97, P = 0.03) [1]. These results were obtained using the fixed-effect model, ignoring a moderate level of heterogeneity (I = 46%) [2]. However, we believe that...
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عنوان ژورنال: Critical Care
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: 10.1186/cc11654