Multimodality respiratory physiotherapy reduces mortality but may not prevent ventilator- associated pneumonia or reduce length of stay in the intensive care unit: a systematic review Diana P Pozuelo-Carrascosa, Ana Torres-Costoso, Celia Alvarez-Bueno, Iván Cavero-Redondo, Purificación López Muñoz, Vicente Martínez-Vizcaíno Journal of Physiotherapy Volume 64, Issue 4, Pages 222-228 (October 2018) DOI: 10.1016/j.jphys.2018.08.005 Copyright © 2018 Australian Physiotherapy Association Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Flow of studies through the review. Con=control group, exp=experimental group. Journal of Physiotherapy 2018 64, 222-228DOI: (10.1016/j.jphys.2018.08.005) Copyright © 2018 Australian Physiotherapy Association Terms and Conditions
Figure 2 Risk of bias assessments for included studies. Journal of Physiotherapy 2018 64, 222-228DOI: (10.1016/j.jphys.2018.08.005) Copyright © 2018 Australian Physiotherapy Association Terms and Conditions
Figure 3 RR (95% CI) of the preventive effect of multimodality respiratory physiotherapy on ventilator-associated pneumonia by pooling data from five studies. Journal of Physiotherapy 2018 64, 222-228DOI: (10.1016/j.jphys.2018.08.005) Copyright © 2018 Australian Physiotherapy Association Terms and Conditions
Figure 5 WMD (95% CI) in the effect of multimodality respiratory physiotherapy on length of intensive care unit stay by pooling data from five studies. Journal of Physiotherapy 2018 64, 222-228DOI: (10.1016/j.jphys.2018.08.005) Copyright © 2018 Australian Physiotherapy Association Terms and Conditions
Figure 7 RR (95% CI) of the effect of multimodality respiratory physiotherapy on mortality by pooling data from four studies. Journal of Physiotherapy 2018 64, 222-228DOI: (10.1016/j.jphys.2018.08.005) Copyright © 2018 Australian Physiotherapy Association Terms and Conditions