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World J Gastroenterol. Jan 21, 2012; 18(3): 279-284
Published online Jan 21, 2012. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v18.i3.279
Published online Jan 21, 2012. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v18.i3.279
Figure 1 The flow chart of literature search and selection in PubMed.
Figure 2 Updated meta-analysis of antibiotic prophylaxis vs placebo/none-treatment.
The meta-analysis was stratified into two periods, i.e., before 2000 and from 2000. In the later period, no benefit was obtained from prophylactic antibiotics (RR = 1.01, P=0.98; Mantel-Haenszel test, fixed effect model, two-sided).
Figure 3 Funnel plot of the meta-analysis.
Apparently asymmetrical distribution was found in the period before 2000.
Figure 4 Linear correlation of accumulated sample size from 2000.
There is highly positive correlation between the accumulated sample size and the year from 2000 (r = 0.954, P = 0.000; Pearson correlation test, two-sided).
- Citation: Jiang K, Huang W, Yang XN, Xia Q. Present and future of prophylactic antibiotics for severe acute pancreatitis. World J Gastroenterol 2012; 18(3): 279-284
- URL: https://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/full/v18/i3/279.htm
- DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v18.i3.279