Corticosteroids vs control: Infectious complications
It is very uncertain whether risk of postoperative infectious complications: corticosteroids changes overall infectious complications within 30 days of surgery compared with control (very low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Risk of postoperative infectious complications: corticosteroids vs control Overall infectious complications within 30 days of surgery · inflammatory bowel disease It is very uncertain whether risk of postoperative infectious complications: corticosteroids changes overall infectious complications within 30 days of surgery compared with control (very low certainty). Risk of postoperative infectious complications from medical therapies in inflammatory bowel disease (2020) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | OR 1.4 [1.23, 1.6] | 41 studies · 41 participants | Very low |
Risk of postoperative infectious complications: corticosteroids vs control Overall infectious complications within 30 days of surgery (Adjusted Analysis) · inflammatory bowel disease Risk of postoperative infectious complications: corticosteroids may leads to higher overall infectious complications within 30 days of surgery (Adjusted… compared with control (low certainty). Risk of postoperative infectious complications from medical therapies in inflammatory bowel disease (2020) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | OR 1.7 [1.38, 2.09] | 17 studies · 17 participants | Low |
Risk of postoperative infectious complications: corticosteroids vs control Overall infectious complications within 30 days of surgery (Unadjusted Analysis) · inflammatory bowel disease It is very uncertain whether risk of postoperative infectious complications: corticosteroids changes overall infectious complications within 30 days of surgery… compared with control (very low certainty). Risk of postoperative infectious complications from medical therapies in inflammatory bowel disease (2020) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | OR 1.22 [1.03, 1.45] | 24 studies · 24 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Risk of postoperative infectious complications from medical therapies in inflammatory bowel disease 2020 · 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.