Relationship Between Methodological Trial Quality and the Effects of Selective Digestive Decontamination on Pneumonia and Mortality in Critically Ill Patients | Zendy

Christianne A. van Nieuwenhoven | Zendy

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Relationship Between Methodological Trial Quality and the Effects of Selective Digestive Decontamination on Pneumonia and Mortality in Critically Ill Patients

Author(s) -

Christianne A. van Nieuwenhoven

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

jama

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.688

H-Index - 680

eISSN - 1538-3598

pISSN - 0098-7484

DOI - 10.1001/jama.286.3.335

Subject(s) - medicine , blinding , pneumonia , relative risk , confidence interval , intensive care medicine , randomized controlled trial , meta analysis , quality score , incidence (geometry) , metric (unit) , physics , optics , operations management , economics

Although meta-analyses of randomized trials have shown that selective digestive decontamination (SDD) prevents nosocomial pneumonia in critically ill patients, the influence of trial quality on the effectiveness of SDD has not been rigorously evaluated.

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