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. 2016 Jan 16;2016(1):CD004920. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD004920.pub3

Chen 2013.

Methods Two‐arm single centre randomized study
Participants 124 critically ill patients admitted to Department of Critical Care Medicine of Jiangxi Provincial People's Hospital from 1 May 2012 to 30 April 2013 needing mechanical ventilation. More Inclusion criteria: APACHE II > 15, at risk for IFI
Exclusion criteria: patients with IFI, length of stay in ICU < 3 days, patients receiving antifungal drugs, allergy to antifungal drugs
Interventions One group received placebo (gastrointestinal prokinetic drug)
Another group received nystatin 1000 kU three times a day via the gastric tube
Outcomes Candida colonization (Corrected colonization index)
Incidence of candidaemia
ICU stay
Mortality
Notes We could not know the percentage of included neutropenic patients or treated with immunosuppressive therapy (information was recorded by the investigators but not reported)
PubMed: 24021043
Contact: Zeng Jun, Department of Critical Care Medicine, People's Hospital of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China. Corresponding author: Zeng Jun, Email: Katherine‐cjl@163.com