Probiotics: is it Really That Good? Cost-Effectiveness of Treating the in-Patient

Summary

Medical literature has dealt with various perspectives of probiotic therapy - prevention of antibiotic associated diarrhoea, Clostridium difficile, etc. However, there have been no published results which can provide a basis for a generalized recommendation or discouragement of probiotic use among various groups of hospitalized patients. The hypothesis is that the benefit in probiotic therapy in the admitted patient is by far larger than the actual cost of therapy. This assumption is probably true for all admitted patients and for patients on antibiotic therapy in particular.

Timeline

Start

2007-07

Primary completion

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Completion

2008-07

Drugs

Indications