Table 5.
Forest plot of the subgroup analysis of the RCTs. Review: enhanced oral hygiene maintenance for the prevention of non-ventilated pneumonia. Comparison: enhanced oral care versus usual care. Outcome: prevention of mortality due to pneumonia
| Study | Experimental | Control | Risk ratio | RR | 95% CI | Weight | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Events | Total | Events | Total | |||||
| Adachi (2002) | 2 | 40 | 8 | 48 |
|
0.30 | (0.07; 1.33) | 13.5% |
| Bourigault (2011) | 15 | 868 | 26 | 1,645 | 1.09 | (0.58; 2.05) | 26.6% | |
| Juthani-Mehtha (2015) | 122 | 277 | 88 | 298 | 1.49 | (1.20; 1.86) | 32.7% | |
| Yoneyama (2002) | 14 | 184 | 30 | 182 | 0.46 | (0.25; 0.84) | 27.2% | |
| Random effects model | 1,369 | 2,173 | 0.80 | (0.40; 1.63) | 100.0% | |||
| - | - | |||||||
| Heterogeneity: I2 = 83%, tau2 = 0.3838, p <0.01 | ||||||||
