Assessment vs direct admission: Use of epidural or any regional anaesthesia
Assessment may leads to lower use of epidural or any regional anaesthesia compared with direct admission (low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Assessment vs direct admission Use of epidural or any regional anaesthesia · healthy pregnant women Assessment may leads to lower use of epidural or any regional anaesthesia compared with direct admission (low certainty). Assessment and support during early labour for improving birth outcomes (2017) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.87 [0.78, 0.98] | 1 study · 209 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment and support during early labour for improving birth outcomes 2017 · 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.