MgSO4 vs placebo: Hospital admissions
MgSO4 may leads to lower hospital admissions compared with placebo (low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
MgSO4 vs placebo Hospital admissions · children with acute asthma in the emergency department MgSO4 may leads to lower hospital admissions compared with placebo (low certainty). Intravenous magnesium sulfate for treating children with acute asthma in the emergency department (2016) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | OR 0.32 [0.14, 0.74] | 3 studies · 115 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intravenous magnesium sulfate for treating children with acute asthma in the emergency department 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.