SCS treatment for 7 or fewer days vs SCS treatment: Treatment failure Need for additional treatment
SCS treatment for 7 or fewer days showed no clear difference in treatment failure Need for additional treatment compared with SCS treatment (moderate certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
SCS treatment for 7 or fewer days vs SCS treatment Treatment failure Need for additional treatment · patients with acute exacerbations of COPD SCS treatment for 7 or fewer days showed no clear difference in treatment failure Need for additional treatment compared with SCS treatment (moderate certainty). Different durations of corticosteroid therapy for exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (2018) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | OR 0.72 [0.36, 1.46] | 4 studies · 457 participants | Moderate |
SCS treatment for 7 or fewer days vs SCS treatment Treatment failure Need for additional treatment · patients with acute exacerbations of COPD SCS treatment for 7 or fewer days showed no clear difference in treatment failure Need for additional treatment compared with SCS treatment (moderate certainty). Different durations of corticosteroid therapy for exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (2014) · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyearlier version CD006897.PUB3, superseded | OR 0.72 [0.36, 1.46] | 4 studies · 457 participants | Moderate |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Different durations of corticosteroid therapy for exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 2018 · 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.