Occupational therapy vs usual care or no treatment: Death or a poor outcome (median 3‐month
Occupational therapy may leads to lower odds of death or a poor outcome at end of scheduled compared with usual or no care (low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Occupational therapy vs usual or no care Odds of death or a poor outcome at end of scheduled · adults with stroke Occupational therapy may leads to lower odds of death or a poor outcome at end of scheduled compared with usual or no care (low certainty). Occupational therapy for adults with problems in activities of daily living after stroke (2017) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Peto OR 0.71 [0.52, 0.96] | 5 studies · 771 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Occupational therapy for adults with problems in activities of daily living after stroke 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.