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Example:
Types of participants
Types of Intervention
Any probiotic (single or mixture of strains, any dosage regimen and any route of
administration) for more than seven days, compared to placebo or no treatment.
Outcomes Measured
Primary Outcome:
Secondary Outcome
Result:
The
number
experienced
of
episodes
participants
ofacute
who
URTI.
One study, Fujita 2013, included old people (the mean age was
83 years old) and the results also showed that probiotics were
better than placebo (MD -1.69; 95% CI -2.75 to -0.63; P value =
0.002)
Results
some trials had small sample sizes and the quality of the
methods used in these trials was not very good.
some trials did not assess the most important outcomes defined
in this review as the main outcomes in their original trials.
Conclusion