Surgery vs oral medication: Control of bleeding (cure or improvement to acceptable level) At 2 years
Surgery probably leads to higher control of bleeding (cure or improvement to acceptable level) At 4… compared with oral medication (moderate certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Surgery vs oral medication Control of bleeding (cure or improvement to acceptable level) At 4 months · women with heavy menstrual bleeding Surgery probably leads to higher control of bleeding (cure or improvement to acceptable level) At 4… compared with oral medication (moderate certainty). Surgery versus medical therapy for heavy menstrual bleeding (2016) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 2.66 [1.94, 3.64] | 1 study · 186 participants | Moderate |
Surgery vs oral medication Control of bleeding (cure or improvement to acceptable level) At 2 years · women with heavy menstrual bleeding Surgery may leads to higher control of bleeding (cure or improvement to acceptable level) At 2… compared with oral medication (low certainty). Surgery versus medical therapy for heavy menstrual bleeding (2016) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 1.29 [1.06, 1.57] | 1 study · 173 participants | Low |
Surgery vs oral medication Control of bleeding (cure or improvement to acceptable level) At 5 years · women with heavy menstrual bleeding It is very uncertain whether surgery changes control of bleeding (cure or improvement to acceptable level) At 5… compared with oral medication (very low certainty). Surgery versus medical therapy for heavy menstrual bleeding (2016) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 1.14 [0.97, 1.34] | 1 study · 140 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery versus medical therapy for heavy menstrual bleeding 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.