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Any cold therapy vs control: Transfusion rate

It is very uncertain whether any cold therapy changes transfusion rate compared with any control (very low certainty).

What each review found

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FindingEffectStudiesGRADE certainty
Any cold therapy vs any control
Transfusion rate · patients with patients undergoing total knee replacement
It is very uncertain whether any cold therapy changes transfusion rate compared with any control (very low certainty).
Cryotherapy following total knee replacement (2012) · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyearlier version CD007911.PUB2, superseded
RR 2.13 [0.04, 109.63]2 studies · 91 participantsVery low

Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.

The reviews

ReviewSearched up toIncluded studiesAMSTAR 2
Cryotherapy following total knee replacement
2023 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
Not reportedlist not extracted yetNot 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.

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