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. 2015 Aug 18;42:1270–1275. doi: 10.1007/s00134-015-4009-5

Table 2.

Post hoc analyses and secondary studies on SDD and SOD

References Design Main results Comments
de Smet et al. [6] 2 centres among 13 Dutch ICUs (NEJM 2009) Post-ICU rate of nosocomial infection (/1000 days at-risk) No impact of SDD/SOD on post-ICU infection rates
 SC: 8.3
 SOD: 11.2 RR 1.44 (0.87–2.39)
 SDD: 12.9 RR 1.49 (0.90–2.47)
Oostdijk et al. [7] 13 Dutch ICUs (NEJM 2009) Samples from 6 point-prevalence surveys before, during and after SDD/SOD Respiratory samples (n = 2304): Pre-intervention Intervention Post-intervention SDD/SOD decreased resistance in respiratory and rectal samples, followed by a rebound effect after stopping it
 Ceftazidime-resistant  10 % (7.6–13.3 %)  4 % (2.6–4.6 %)  10 % (7.4–13.0 %)
 Tobramycin-resistant  10 % (6.9–12.5 %)  6 % (4.5–6.9 %)  12 % (8.8–14.6 %)
 Ciprofloxacin-resistant  14 % (10.4–17.0 %)  5 % (3.5–5.7 %)  12 % (9.0–14.9 %)
Rectal samples (n = 2963) Pre-intervention Intervention Post-intervention
 Ceftazidime-resistant  6 % (4.7–7.5 %)  5 % (3.9–6.7 %)  15 % (12.4–17.0 %)
 Tobramycin-resistant  9 % (7.7–11.2 %)  7 % (5.5–8.7 %)  13 % (10.4–14.7 %)
 Ciprofloxacin-resistant  12 % (9.7–13.5 %)  7 % (5.1–8.2 %)  13 % (10.8–15.2 %)
Benus et al. [8] 1 of 13 Dutch ICUs (NEJM 2009) Fluorescent in situ hybridization analysis of the intestinal microbiota Total number of bacteria cultured from the faeces SDD/SOD reduced the bacterial count of the faeces
 SC: (21 out of 121 patients): 3.7 × 109 (2.2–6.2)
 SOD: (19 out of 111 patients): 1.6 × 109 (0.8–3.4)
 SDD: (19 put of 86 patients): 1.9 × 109 (0.9–4.3)
Enterococcus faecalis Enterococcus faecium F. prausnitzii SDD/SOD significanty increased enterococci
 SC: 2.6 × 106  6.3 × 106  5.5 × 107
 SOD 7.6 × 106 P < 0.05  9.8 × 106  NS 4.0 × 107 NS
 SDD 69 × 106 P < 0.05  54 × 106  P < 0.05 0.1 × 107 P < 0.05
Oostdijk et al. [9] 13 Dutch ICUs (NEJM 2009) and 1 ICU (UMC Utrecht: 08/2008–08/2010) Cumulative rate of bacteremia according to respiratory colonization status: SDD decreased bacteremia only in patients successfully decolonized
 SC: 4.5/1000 patient-days
 SOD: 3.0/1000 patient-days
 SDD: 3.0/1000 patient-days in patients remaining colonized by enterobacteriae
 SDD: 1.0/1000 patient-days in patients successfully decolonized
de Smet et al. [10] 13 Dutch ICUs (NEJM 2009) Rate of bacteremia and respiratory tract acquisition of microorganisms in patients staying >3 days Any bacteremia (except Coagulase-negative Bacteremia with highly-resistant Staphylococci) microorganisms SDD > SOD decreased bacteremia
 SC: 239/1837 (13 %) 19/1837 (0.10 %)
 SOD: 158/1758 (9 %) OR: 0.66 (0.53–0.82) NNT: 25 20/1758 (1.03 %) NS
 SDD: 124/1868 (7 %) OR: 0.48 (0.38–0.60) NNT: 16 8/1868 (0.04 %) OR:0.41 (0.18–0.94) NNT:170
Respiratory tract acquisition of any microorganisms Of highly-resistant microorganisms SDD > SOD decreased respiratory colonization
 SC: 867/881 (98 %) 128/881 (15 %)
 SOD: 862/886 (97 %) NS 88/886 (10 %) OR: 0.65 (0.49–0.87) NNT: 22
 SDD: 800/828 (97 %) OR: 0.46 (0.24–0.88) 74/828 (9 %) OR: 0.58 (0.43–0.78) NNT: 18
Respiratory tract acquisition of Enterococcus spp Of Candida spp SDD > SOD increased respiratory colonization by enterococci Candida spp and Psedomonas aeruginosa
 SC: 37/881 (4 %) 393/881 (45 %)
 SOD: 32/886 (3 %) NS 476/886 (53 %) OR: 1.44 (1.20–1.74)
 SDD: 93/828 (11 %) OR: 2.89 (1.95–4.29) 465/828 (56 %) OR: 1.59 (1.31–1.93)
Respiratory tract acquisition of tobramycin-resistant non-fermenting Gram-negative pathogens (such as P. aeruginosa)
 SC: 18/881 (2 %)
 SOD: 20/886 (2 %) NS
 SDD: 49/828 (6 %) OR: 3.02 (1.74–5.20)
Oostdijk et al. [11] 13 Dutch ICUs (NEJM 2009) Patients receiving SDD with rectal sampling and 1 single centre cohort; UMC Utrecht 01/2008–08/2009 Proportion of successful decontamination under SDD SDD less successfully decolonized the digestive tract from resistant microorganisms
 Patients with digestive enterobacteriaceae at ICU admission 399/507 (79 %)
 Patients with cephalosporin-susceptible microorganisms 343/430 (80 %)
 Patients with cephalosporin-resistant microorganisms 56/77 (73 %) P < 005
 Patients with aminoglycoside-susceptible microorganisms 368/457 (81 %)
 Patients with aminoglycoside-resistant microorganisms 31/50 (62 %) P < 0.05
 Patients with any resistant microorganism at ICU entry 23/109 (21 %)
 Patients with any resistant microorganism at ICU discharge 24/109 (22 %) NS
Melsen et al. [12] 13 Dutch ICUs (NEJM 2009) post hoc analysis of surgical (n = 2762) versus non-surgical (n = 3165) patients 28-day mortality in surgical patients 28-day mortality in non-surgical patients SDD decreased mortality in non-surgical patients
 SC: 209/973 (21.6 %) 335/1016 (33.2 %)
 SOD: 194/866 (22.6 %) OR: 0.97 (0.77–1.22) 308/1038 (30.0 %) OR: 0.77 (0.63–0·94)
 SDD: 191/923 (20.8 %) OR: 0.86 (0.69–1.09) 349/1111 (31.7 %) OR: 0.85 (0.70–1·03)
Bacteremia in surgical patients Bacteremia in non-surgical patients SDD/SOD decreased bacteremia in all patients
 SC: 86/973 (8.8 %) 84/1016 (8.3 %)
 SOD: 50/866 (5.8 %) P < 0.05 60/1038 (5.8 %) P < 0.05
 SDD: 39/923 (4.2 %) P < 0.05 41/1111 (3.7 %) P < 0.05
Oostdijk et al. [13] 9 of 13 Dutch ICUs (NEJM 2009) with colistin susceptibility testing Colistin susceptibility testing (n = 1022 patients) Medium-term (24 months) acquisition of colistin-resistance
 Acquisition of rectal colistin-resistant microorganisms 2.4 (2.5–4.2)/1000 patient-days
 Evolution from colistin-susceptible to colistin-resistant 1.7 % (1.0–2.7)
Wittekamp et al. [14] 5 of 13 Dutch ICUs participating in 2 large studies: I: SC, SOD-I, SDD-I (NEJM 2009) 1007 respiratory and 1093 rectal samples obtained from 1189 patients II: SOD-II, SDD-II (JAMA 2014) 1755 respiratory and 1808 rectal samples obtained from 1865 patients SC SDD-I SOD-I SDD-II SOD-II Long-term SDD/SOD (over 7 years) decreased tobramycin resistance in rectal and respiratory samples
Tobramycin resistance in rectal samples: 12.1 % 6.6 %1,2 14 % 4.2 %3,4 8 %5,6
 1 SDD-I vs SC: RR 0.54 (0.34–0.87)
 2 SDD-I vs SOD-I: RR 0.46 (0.29–0.72)
 3 SDD-II vs SDD-I: RR 0.64 (0.40–1.04)
 4 SDD-II vs SC: RR 0.35 (0.23–0.53)
 5 SOD-II vs SOD-I: RR 0.56 (0.39–0.78)
 6 SOD-II vs SC: RR 0.66 (0.47–0.95)
Tobramycin resistance in respiratory samples 10.9 % 6.7 %1 9.7 % 5.3 %2,3 4.5 %3,4
 1 SDD-I vs SC: RR 0.61 (0.38–1.00)
 2 SDD-II vs SC: RR 0.48 (0.32–0.73)
 3 SOD-II vs SOD-I: RR 0.48 (0.30–0.76)
 4 SOD-II vs SC: RR 0.42 (0.27–0.64)
Colistin resistance in rectal samples 2.7 % 2.8 % 1.2 % 1.7 % 1.1 %1 Long-term SDD/SOD (over 7 years) did not increase resistance to colistin
 1 SOD-II vs SC: RR 0.41 (0.17–0.98)
Colistin resistance in respiratory samples 0.9 % 2.1 % 1.7 % 1.1 % 0.6 %

SDD selective decontamination of the digestive tract, SOD selective oropharyngeal decontamination, SC standard care, NS not significant, APACHE II acute physiology and chronic health evaluation II score, ICU intensive care unit, OR odds ratio, RR relative risk, vs versus, 95 % CI 95 % confidence interval