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From: Selective digestive decontamination, a seemingly effective regimen with individual benefit or a flawed concept with population harm?

Fig. 3

Boxplots displaying the median (centre line), IQR (outer limits of box), upper and lower limits (whiskers) and outlier observations (dots) for VAP incidence (a) and ICU mortality (b) from studies where this was available (bottom) from concurrent control (blue), and NCC control (green) and intervention (red) groups with > 50% receiving MV [data from 206 (studies catalogued in [32]). The overall benchmark (vertical green line) is the median derived from observational groups (green). CC is concurrent control (coming from RCCT design studies as in Fig. 1a–c), or non-concurrent (NCC as in Fig. 1d); non-AB study is studies of non-antibiotic-based methods of infection prevention; TAP is topical antibiotic prophylaxis (with or without PPAP)

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