Medical-grade honey does not reduce skin colonization at central venous catheter-insertion sites of critically ill patients: a randomized controlled trial

Table 2 Skin-colonization outcomes

	Honey n= 129	Control n= 106	P value
Last culture positive, n (%)	44 (34)	36 (34)	0.98
Log CFU/swab, median (IQR)	1 (0-2.84)	1 (0-2.70)	0.94
Last culture, stratified for catheter location
Femoralis, n (%)	22 (37)	25 (38)	0.21
Jugularis, n (%)	20 (44)	10 (34)	0.17
Subclavia, n (%)	2 (14)	1 (8)	0.68
Log CFU/swab, stratified for catheter location
Femoralis, median (IQR)	1.3 (0-2.95) n = 60	1.30 (0-2.73) n = 65	1.0
Jugularis, median (IQR)	0 (0-3.2) n = 55	1 (0-2.7) n = 29	0.89
Subclavia, median (IQR)	0 (0-0) n = 14	0 (0-0) n = 12	0.90

Last culture is defined as the last sampling time point before catheter removal, transfer of patient from the ICU, or death.

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