Table 2.
Patient Outcomes.
| Author | Length of Hospital Stay (Days), Mean ± SD or Median (IQR) | ICU Admission (n/N,%) | Mechanical Ventilation (n/N,%) | All-Cause Mortality (n/N,%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intervention | Control | Intervention | Control | Intervention | Control | Intervention | Control | |
| Annweiler [28] | NA | NA | all (the study recruited patients already admitted in the ICU) | NA | NA | 3/16, 19% | 10/32, 31% | |
| Sabico [29] | 6 (5–8) | 7 (0–10) | 2/36, 5.6% | 3/33, 9.1% | NA | NA | 1/36, 2.8% | 0/33, 0% |
| Güven [30] | 9 (6–16) | 9 (5–17) | all (the study recruited patients already admitted in the ICU) | 44/113, 39% | 13/62, 21% | 43/113, 38% | 30/62, 48% | |
| Nogues [31] | NA | NA | 20/447, 4.5% | 82/39, 21% | NA | NA | 21/447, 4.7% | 62/391, 16% |
| Elamir [32] | 5.5 ± 3.9 | 9.24 ± 9.4 | 5/25, 20% | 8/25, 32% | 0/25, 0% | 2/25, 8% | 0/25, 0% | 3/25, 12% |
| Entrenas-Castillo [33] | NA | NA | 1/50, 2% | 13/26, 50% | NA | NA | 0/50, 0% | 2/26, 7.7% |
| Alcala-Diaz [34] | NA | NA | NA | NA | 3/79, 3.8% | 26/458, 5.7% | 4/79, 5.1% | 90/458, 20% |
| Murai [35] | 7.0 (4.0–10.0) | 7.0 (5.0–13.0) | 16.0 % (9.9–22.5) | 21.2% (14.2–29.7) | 7.6% (3.5–13.9) | 14.4% (8.6–22.1) | 7.6% (3.5–13.9) | 5.1% (1.9–10.7) |
| Tan [36] | NA | NA | 1/17, 5.9% | 8/26, 31% | NA | NA | 0/17, 0% | 0/26, 0% |
| Soliman [37] | NA | NA | NA | NA | 14/40, 35% | 7/16, 44% | 7/40, 18% | 3/16, 19% |
| Jevalikar [25] | NA | NA | 16/128, 13% | 13/40, 33% | NA | NA | 1/128, 0.8% | 3/40, 7.5% |
ICU: Intensive Care Unit, IQR: Interquartile Range, NA: not available.