Table 4

Response times to treatment and recurrences of diarrhoea


Number
Mean
95% confidence interval for mean



Lower
Upper

Duration of first episode in days

Both codeine phosphate and loperamide
15
34.3
-6.8
75.5
Codeine phosphate
29
20.1
11.5
28.8
Loperamide
5
26.1
13.1
39.1

Episodes per year

Both codeine phosphate and loperamide
45
4.8
1.7
8.0
Codeine phosphate
63
2.8
1.3
4.3
Loperamide
16
6.5
-0.7
13.7

Bowie et al. BMC Palliative Care 2006 5:1   doi:10.1186/1472-684X-5-1