Question · asked by 1 review

Combined oral contraceptive pill vs contraceptive vaginal ring: Menstrual blood loss: mean loss

What each review found

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FindingEffectStudiesGRADE certainty
Combined oral contraceptive pill vs contraceptive vaginal ring
Menstrual blood loss ‐ At end of treatment (MBL) · heavy menstrual bleeding
Combined hormonal contraceptives for heavy menstrual bleeding (2019) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
no estimate extracted2 studies · 100 participantsVery low
Combined oral contraceptive pill vs contraceptive vaginal ring
Menstrual blood loss ‐ After 3 months · heavy menstrual bleeding
Combined hormonal contraceptives for heavy menstrual bleeding (2019) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
no estimate extracted1 study · 50 participantsVery low

Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.

The reviews

ReviewSearched up toIncluded studiesAMSTAR 2
Combined hormonal contraceptives for heavy menstrual bleeding
2019 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
Not reportedlist not extracted yetNot 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.