Public health and budget impact of probiotics on common respiratory tract infections: a modelling study.

OBJECTIVES:Two recent meta-analyses by the York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC) and Cochrane demonstrated probiotic efficacy in reducing the duration and number of common respiratory tract infections (CRTI) and associated antibiotic prescriptions. A health-economic analysis was undertaken to esti...

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Main Authors: Irene Lenoir-Wijnkoop, Laetitia Gerlier, Jean-Louis Bresson, Claude Le Pen, Gilles Berdeaux
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4393230?pdf=render