Figure 3.

Summary of findings of short- compared with long-term duration antibiotic therapy presented as Forest plots, including the results reported by de Jonge et al. [12], Ram et al. [25], and Kumar et al. [22], and the results of the systematic review by Stern et al. [13]. Mortality (above), clinical failure (middle), and bacteremia (below). Total RR across 1 (left favors short, right favors long). Abbreviations: RCT, randomized control study, CI, confidence interval; RR, risk ratio [12,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28].