Probiotics: is it Really That Good? Cost-Effectiveness of Treating the in-Patient
Status:
Unknown status
Trial end date:
2008-07-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
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.