Epidural pain relief vs systemic opioid‐based pain relief: Mortality in hospital or up to 30 days
Epidural pain relief showed no clear difference in mortality in hospital or up to 30 days compared with systemic opioid‐based pain relief (low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Epidural pain relief vs systemic opioid‐based pain relief Mortality in hospital or up to 30 days · people undergoing abdominal aortic surgery Epidural pain relief showed no clear difference in mortality in hospital or up to 30 days compared with systemic opioid‐based pain relief (low certainty). Epidural pain relief versus systemic opioid‐based pain relief for abdominal aortic surgery (2016) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 1.06 [0.6, 1.86] | 14 studies · 1383 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epidural pain relief versus systemic opioid‐based pain relief for abdominal aortic surgery 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.