Corticosteroids vs placebo or no treatment: Incomplete recovery at end of study House‐Brackmann scale, Sunnybrook score, Yanagihara score
Corticosteroids leads to lower incomplete recovery ≥ 6 months after randomisation House‐Brackmann… compared with placebo or no treatment (high certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Corticosteroids vs placebo or no treatment Incomplete recovery ≥ 6 months after randomisation House‐Brackmann grading system and Sunnybrook scale · people with Bell's palsy Corticosteroids leads to lower incomplete recovery ≥ 6 months after randomisation House‐Brackmann… compared with placebo or no treatment (high certainty). Corticosteroids for Bell's palsy (idiopathic facial paralysis) (2016) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.63 [0.5, 0.8] | 7 studies · 895 participants | High |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corticosteroids for Bell's palsy (idiopathic facial paralysis) 2016 · 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.