Question · asked by 1 review

Anti‐leukotrienes & ICS vs ICS dose increase: Hospital admissions due to exacerbations: number of participants

Anti‐leukotrienes & ICS may leads to higher participants with exacerbations requiring hospital admission compared with higher dose ICS (low certainty).

What each review found

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FindingEffectStudiesGRADE certainty
Anti‐leukotrienes & ICS vs higher dose ICS
Participants with exacerbations requiring hospital admission · Children with asthma
Anti‐leukotrienes & ICS may leads to higher participants with exacerbations requiring hospital admission compared with higher dose ICS (low certainty).
Addition of anti‐leukotriene agents to inhaled corticosteroids in children with persistent asthma (2013) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
Risk Ratio 11 study · 182 participantsLow

Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.

The reviews

ReviewSearched up toIncluded studiesAMSTAR 2
Addition of anti‐leukotriene agents to inhaled corticosteroids in children with persistent asthma
2013 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
Not reportedlist not extracted yetNot 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

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