Kinetic bed therapy to prevent nosocomial pneumonia in mechanically ventilated patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Table 3 Summary of the results for each of the randomized clinical trials of kinetic bed therapy

Study	Sample size	Nosocomial pneumonia (treatment vs control)	Mortality (treatment vs control)	Ventilated days (treatment vs control)	ICU LOS (treatment vs control)	Hospital LOS (treatment vs control)
Ahrens [17]	255	14/118 vs 45/137	41/118 vs 58/137	10.8 ± 12.2 vs 10.1 ± 10.6	13.5 ± 13.2 vs 13.6 ± 11.3	NR
Bhazad [30]	22	NR	NR	NR	10 vs 18^a	NR
Kirschenbaum [23]	37	3/17 vs 10/20	1/17 vs 2/20	21.0 ± 9.9 vs 20.0 ± 9.4	NR	NR
Macintyre [7]	103	9/52 vs 13/51	15/52 vs 14/51	NR	NR	NR
Gietzen [30]	11	NR	NR	12.4 ± 3.8 vs 35.5 ± 31.5	17.2 ± 5.8 vs 24.3 ± 11.4	25.0 ± 10.9 vs 44.8 ± 25.8
Traver [27]	103	8/44 vs 17/59	12/44 vs 19/59	3.0 (0–28) vs 3.0 (0–24)^b	7.0 (2–43) vs 5.0 (2–53)^b	17.5 (3–98) vs 17.0 (3–74)^b
Whiteman [29]	69	10/33 vs 14/36	NR	13.8 ± 11.5 vs 16.1 ± 20.6	29.8 ± 27.5 vs 32.0 ± 46.5	NR
deBloisbanc [19]	110	6/69 vs 11/51	27/69 vs 14/51	6.1 ± 7.5 vs 9.9 ± 12.9	7.8 ± 6.7 vs 10.8 ± 10.0	17.0 ± 18.3 vs 18.5 ± 13.6
Nelson [24]	100	NR	4/40 vs 10/60	6.9 ± 8.9 vs 10.9 ± 15.2	8.6 ± 11.7 vs 11.2 ± 15.4	32.9 ± 30.2 vs 32.2 ± 28.2
Shapiro [25]	30	NR	NR	NR	11.4 ± 10.4 vs 12.3 ± 10.1	25.6 ± 20.8 vs 22.6 ± 19.5
Clemmer [18]	49	NR	3/23 vs 5/26	NR	20.9 ± 16.2 vs 13.9 ± 7.5	27.1 ± 16.5 vs 19.0 ± 10.5
Fink [21]	99	7/51 vs 19/48	10/51 vs 8/48	4 (0–32) vs 7 (0–74)^b	5 (1–32) vs 8 (2–74)^b	20 (2–201) vs 37 (5–612)^b
Demarest [20]	30	1/16 vs 4/14	8/16 vs 6/14	NR	15.1 vs 11.4^a	NR
Summer [26]	86	4/43 vs 7/43	10/43 vs 11/43	NR	6.7 vs 11.6^a	NR
Gentilello [22]	65	5/27 vs 13/38	7/27 vs 5/38	8.5 ± 5.3 vs 10 ± 8.2	16.8 ± 13.6 vs 15.0 ± 15.6	NR

^aData reported as mean only. ^bData reported as median and range. ICU, intensive care unit; LOS, length of stay; NR, not reported.

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