Selective decontamination of the digestive tract: it's all in your mind!

Pieter Depuydt¹, Nicolas Molinari², Romain Sonneville^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Intensive Care, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
² Department of Statistics, IDESP, INSERM, Univ Montpellier, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
³ Université Paris Cité, INSERM UMR 1137, 75018, Paris, France. romain.sonneville@aphp.fr.
⁴ APHP.Nord, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Bichat-Claude Bernard University Hospital, 75018, Paris, France. romain.sonneville@aphp.fr.
⁵ Service de Médecine Intensive-Réanimation, Hôpital Bichat, Claude Bernard, 46 rue Henri Huchard, 75877, Paris Cedex, France. romain.sonneville@aphp.fr.

Editorial

Pieter Depuydt et al. Intensive Care Med. 2024 Jan.

. 2024 Jan;50(1):128-130.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-023-07286-3. Epub 2023 Dec 21.

Pieter Depuydt¹, Nicolas Molinari², Romain Sonneville^{3

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5}

¹ Department of Intensive Care, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
² Department of Statistics, IDESP, INSERM, Univ Montpellier, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
³ Université Paris Cité, INSERM UMR 1137, 75018, Paris, France. romain.sonneville@aphp.fr.
⁴ APHP.Nord, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Bichat-Claude Bernard University Hospital, 75018, Paris, France. romain.sonneville@aphp.fr.
⁵ Service de Médecine Intensive-Réanimation, Hôpital Bichat, Claude Bernard, 46 rue Henri Huchard, 75877, Paris Cedex, France. romain.sonneville@aphp.fr.

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