Corticosteroids vs placebo or no treatment: Chorioamnionitis
Corticosteroids showed no clear difference in chorioamnionitis compared with placebo or no treatment (moderate certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Corticosteroids vs placebo or no treatment Chorioamnionitis · pregnant women at high risk of preterm birth receiving a corticosteroid or placebo/no treatment; women with singleton… Corticosteroids showed no clear difference in chorioamnionitis compared with placebo or no treatment (moderate certainty). Antenatal corticosteroids for accelerating fetal lung maturation for women at risk of preterm birth (2017) · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyearlier version CD004454.PUB3, superseded | RR 0.83 [0.66, 1.06] | 15 studies · 5546 participants | Moderate |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antenatal corticosteroids for accelerating fetal lung maturation for women at risk of preterm birth 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.