As‐required FABA/ICS inhalers vs as‐required FABA inhalers: Hospital admission, ED and urgent care visits
As‐required FABA/ICS inhalers may leads to lower hospital admission, ED and urgent care visits compared with as‐required FABA inhalers (low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
As‐required FABA/ICS inhalers vs as‐required FABA inhalers Hospital admission, ED and urgent care visits · mild asthma As‐required FABA/ICS inhalers may leads to lower hospital admission, ED and urgent care visits compared with as‐required FABA inhalers (low certainty). Combination fixed‐dose beta agonist and steroid inhaler as required for adults or children with mild asthma (2021) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | OR 0.35 | 2 studies · 2997 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combination fixed‐dose beta agonist and steroid inhaler as required for adults or children with mild asthma 2021 · 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.