Intravenous ceftazidime with tobramycin vs ciprofloxacin: Isolation of other micro‐organisms from the respiratory tract: number of participants isolating other micro‐organisms within the 15‐month
Intravenous ceftazidime with tobramycin leads to higher isolation of other micro‐organisms from the respiratory tract:… compared with oral ciprofloxacin (high certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Intravenous ceftazidime with tobramycin vs oral ciprofloxacin Isolation of other micro‐organisms from the respiratory tract: number of participants isolating other micro‐organisms within the 15‐month · adults and children with cystic fibrosis and a positive microbiological isolate of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from a… Intravenous ceftazidime with tobramycin leads to higher isolation of other micro‐organisms from the respiratory tract:… compared with oral ciprofloxacin (high certainty). Antibiotic strategies for eradicating Pseudomonas aeruginosa in people with cystic fibrosis (2023) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 2.07 | 1 study · 285 participants | High |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antibiotic strategies for eradicating Pseudomonas aeruginosa in people with cystic fibrosis 2023 · 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.