Work overview

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Search strategy

Prebiotics, probiotics, and synbiotics therapy in critically ill patients: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

Junji Hatakeyama, Ryo Yamamoto, Minoru Yoshida, Kohei Yamada, Kazushige Inoue, Takayuki Irahara, Satomi Ichimaru, Nobuto Nakanishi, Naoki Higashibeppu, Kensuke Nakamura, and Joji Kotani · 2026

Contents

Section 03 of 19

  1. 01Introduction
  2. 02Methods
  3. 03Search strategy
  4. 04Study selection and inclusion criteria
  5. 05Outcomes
  6. 06Data extraction and risk of bias assessment
  7. 07Statistical analysis
  8. 08Subgroup and sensitivity analyses
  9. 09Results
  10. 10Discussion
  11. 11Conclusion
  12. 12Authors’ contributions
  13. 13Consent for publication
  14. 14Ethics approval and consent to participate
  15. 15Declaration of Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process
  16. 16Funding
  17. 17Availability of data and material
  18. 18Data availability
  19. 19Declaration of competing interest
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Work overview

Section 3 of 19

Search strategy

Junji Hatakeyama, Ryo Yamamoto, Minoru Yoshida, Kohei Yamada, Kazushige Inoue, Takayuki Irahara, Satomi Ichimaru, Nobuto Nakanishi, Naoki Higashibeppu, Kensuke Nakamura, and Joji Kotani · about 1 minutes

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MEDLINE, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), and Web of Science were searched on June 2, 2025. No restrictions were applied to the publication date, and only studies published in English were considered eligible. Unpublished studies and conference abstracts were excluded. The detailed search strategy is displayed in eTable S1.