Vitamin A vs placebo or usual care: Mortality due to diarrhoea
Vitamin A supplementation leads to lower mortality due to diarrhoea compared with placebo or usual care (high certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Vitamin A supplementation vs placebo or usual care Mortality due to diarrhoea · children aged between 6 months and 5 years Vitamin A supplementation leads to lower mortality due to diarrhoea compared with placebo or usual care (high certainty). Vitamin A supplementation for preventing morbidity and mortality in children from six months to five years… (2022) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.88 [0.79, 0.98] | 9 studies · 1098538 participants | High |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitamin A supplementation for preventing morbidity and mortality in children from six months to five years of age 2022 · 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.