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Fig. 4

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

Fig. 4

ICU mortality incidence among 175 groups from studies of observational (top row), and control (left most and middle panels) and intervention (right most panels) groups of non-antibiotic (second row), topical anti-septic (third row) and topical antibiotic (bottom row) studies of VAP prevention versus group mean age. Also shown for reference is the linear regression line of ICU mortality incidence versus group mean age as derived across all groups. The figure is adapted from reference [32] and used here under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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