Anticholinergic and short‐acting beta2‐agonists vs B2‐agonists alone: Hospital admissions
Anticholinergic and short‐acting beta2‐agonists leads to lower primary outcome: hospital admissions hospital admissions compared with beta2‐agonists alone (all protocols) (high certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Anticholinergic and short‐acting beta2‐agonists vs beta2‐agonists alone (all protocols) Primary outcome: hospital admissions hospital admissions · children with initial treatment of acute asthma Anticholinergic and short‐acting beta2‐agonists leads to lower primary outcome: hospital admissions hospital admissions compared with beta2‐agonists alone (all protocols) (high certainty). Combined inhaled anticholinergics and short‐acting beta₂‐agonists for initial treatment of acute asthma in… (2013) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.73 [0.63, 0.85] | 19 studies · 2497 participants | High |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combined inhaled anticholinergics and short‐acting beta₂‐agonists for initial treatment of acute asthma in children 2013 · 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.