The remaining four trials [ 16, 25, 26, 28] exclusively studied patients with diabetes, with two trials studying type 2 diabetes only [ 25, 28], and two trials incorporating patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes [ 16, 26].
All 105 trials reported the study type, and provided a brief title, design, condition, intervention, recruitment, eligibility criteria and contacts.
In their 62-patient, open-label, randomized, controlled trial, they studied type 2 diabetes patients with HbA1c > 8.0%.
We determined the clinical trial availability by manually searching each trial summary to select study type; study design; eligibility criteria and current recruitment status.
In a two-year trial study of a various types of live fencing a communal farm community in Kenya, beehive fencing was found to be more effective at preventing elephant farm invasions than thorn bush barriers.
One trial studied adults with type 1 diabetes (29), whereas the rest studied adults with type 2 diabetes; duration of follow-up ranged from 3 days to 74 weeks, and sample sizes of participants completing follow-up ranged from 10to4848 participants per study group.
In this table, among the 713 patients who were co-enrolled in another study, we present the co-enrollment study type (randomized trial, observational study), study genesis (investigator-initiated versus industry-initiated), affiliation with a research consortia, and the number of studies into which PROTECT patients were co-enrolled.
Titles and abstracts of identified manuscripts were reviewed on: a) population (that is, adults in and type of intensive care unit), b) intervention (that is, SDD, SOD or probiotic therapy), c) outcome (VAP and mortality), and d) type of study (randomized controlled trial or other study types).
Studies were considered to be eligible for inclusion using the following criteria: study type: randomised controlled trials and other controlled trials, population: participants all 65 years and over or where the mean and standard deviations indicated that the majority of participants were 65 years and over.
Study type: All trials, including randomized and nonrandomized case-control studies, as well as case reports and series were selected. .
