Methods
This systematic review was conducted and reported following the
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
(PRISMA) reporting guidelines 13 and has been
registered in PROSPERO (registration no. CRD42022310121). The PRISMA
checklists were available in Supplementary Materials Table S1.
We conducted a systematic search of
PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library, Sinomed, China National Knowledge
Infrastructure, and Wanfang Data from inception through February 15th,
2022, using a combination of MeSH terms, Emtree headings, and keywords:
stroke, Anti-Bacterial Agents, antibiotic prophylaxis, and infections.
In addition, a hand search of the reference lists of relevant reviews
was performed to identify potential studies.
We obtained data from the author
or published meta-analysis for any missing or unpublished data. The full
search strategy was presented in Supplementary Materials Table S2.