Brief Article
Copyright ©2012 Baishideng Publishing Group Co.
World J Gastroenterol. Jan 21, 2012; 18(3): 279-284
Published online Jan 21, 2012. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v18.i3.279
Figure 2
Figure 2 Updated meta-analysis of antibiotic prophylaxis vs placebo/none-treatment. The meta-analysis was stratified into two periods, i.e., before 2000 and from 2000. In the later period, no benefit was obtained from prophylactic antibiotics (RR = 1.01, P=0.98; Mantel-Haenszel test, fixed effect model, two-sided).