Anti‐leukotrienes & ICS vs ICS dose increase: Number of participants experiencing one or more episode requiring treatment with oral steroids
Anti‐leukotrienes & ICS may leads to lower participants with one or more exacerbations requiring oral… compared with higher dose ICS (low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Anti‐leukotrienes & ICS vs higher dose ICS Participants with one or more exacerbations requiring oral corticosteroids · Children with asthma Anti‐leukotrienes & ICS may leads to lower participants with one or more exacerbations requiring oral… compared with higher dose ICS (low certainty). Addition of anti‐leukotriene agents to inhaled corticosteroids in children with persistent asthma (2013) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Risk Ratio 0.82 | 1 study · 182 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Addition of anti‐leukotriene agents to inhaled corticosteroids in children with persistent asthma 2013 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.