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From: Nebulised amphotericin B to eradicate Candida colonisation from the respiratory tract in critically ill patients receiving selective digestive decontamination: a cohort study

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Multistate model. This multistate model was used for estimating the median time to decolonisation relative to the start of nebulised amphotericin B, and for graphically representing colonisation persistence probability curves in Figure 4. A patient with colonisation remained in this state as long as no treatment was given. Patients transitioned to the 'colonisation with treatment’ state upon receiving treatment, and subsequently transitioned to 'decolonisation with treatment’ state when decolonisation occurred. The patient underwent transition to 'decolonisation without treatment’ state in case decolonisation occurred without treatment or before treatment was started. Thus, two states were transitional states, whereas the remaining two states were final states in our model (meaning that no further data were included in the model beyond this point in time).

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