Table 2.

General characteristics of individual studies on prophylactic antifungal therapy using a single-drug antifungal prophylaxis regimen

Reference	Year	Country	Inclusion period	Study design
Slotman and Burchard [65]	1987	USA	October 1982 to July 1985	RCT
Savino et al. [25]	1994	USA	July 1990 to December 1991	RCT
Eggimann et al. [4]	1999	Switzerland	Not specified	RCT
Ables et al. [66]	2000	USA	October 1994 to December 1996	RCT
Pelz et al. [67]	2001	USA	January 1998 to January 1999	RCT
Sandven et al. [6]	2002	Norway	March 1994 to June 1995	RCT
Garbino et al. [68]	2002	Switzerland	30 months	RCT
He et al. [69]	2003	China	January 1998 to December 2002	RCT
Jacobs et al. [70]	2003	Saudi Arabia	December 1998 to June 2001	RCT
Piarroux et al. [38]	2004	France	August 1998 to July 2000	Intervention study
Normand et al. [24]	2005	France	February 2002 to July 2002	RCT

RCT, randomised controlled trial.