Shengmai plus usual treatment vs usual treatment alone: Lack of improvement in heart failure ( NYHA class improved < I class or worsening of heart failure)
Shengmai plus usual treatment may leads to lower lack of improvement in heart failure (NYHA class improved < I class… compared with usual treatment alone (low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Shengmai plus usual treatment vs usual treatment alone Lack of improvement in heart failure (NYHA class improved < I class or worsening of heart failure) NYHA classification grading of cardiac function · patients with heart failure Shengmai plus usual treatment may leads to lower lack of improvement in heart failure (NYHA class improved < I class… compared with usual treatment alone (low certainty). Shengmai (a traditional Chinese herbal medicine) for heart failure (2014) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.37 [0.26, 0.51] | 10 studies · 672 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shengmai (a traditional Chinese herbal medicine) for heart failure 2014 · 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.