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Figure 6

From: Topical antibiotics as a major contextual hazard toward bacteremia within selective digestive decontamination studies: a meta-analysis

Figure 6

Caterpillar plots of the group specific (small diamonds) and summary (large open diamond) B-IP and 95% CI of control groups of studies of VAP prevention using SDD. Duplex study control groups received protocolized parenteral antibiotic prophylaxis. For comparison, the summary B-IP (vertical line) derived from the benchmark groups from Figure 4 are shown. Studies are listed in Additional file 1: Tables S3, S4 and S5. Note that the x axis is a logit scale.

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