Prophylactic antibiotics vs placebo or no treatment: Number of symptomatic UTIs or bacteriuria before discharge
It is very uncertain whether prophylactic antibiotics (single or combined drugs) changes number of symptomatic UTIs or bacteriuria before discharge compared with placebo or no treatment (very low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Prophylactic antibiotics (single or combined drugs) vs placebo or no treatment Number of symptomatic UTIs or bacteriuria before discharge · women with urinary stress incontinence undergoing continence surgery It is very uncertain whether prophylactic antibiotics (single or combined drugs) changes number of symptomatic UTIs or bacteriuria before discharge compared with placebo or no treatment (very low certainty). Prophylactic antibiotics for preventing infection after continence surgery in women with stress urinary… (2022) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.84 [0.05, 13.24] | 2 studies · 85 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prophylactic antibiotics for preventing infection after continence surgery in women with stress urinary incontinence 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.