Corticosteroids vs no corticosteroid use: Incidence of mechanical ventilation
It is very uncertain whether corticosteroid therapy changes proportion of participants requiring mechanical ventilation compared with no corticosteroid therapy (very low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Corticosteroid therapy vs no corticosteroid therapy Proportion of participants requiring mechanical ventilation · individuals with influenza It is very uncertain whether corticosteroid therapy changes proportion of participants requiring mechanical ventilation compared with no corticosteroid therapy (very low certainty). Corticosteroids as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of influenza (2019) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | no estimate extracted | 4 studies · 4364 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corticosteroids as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of influenza 2019 · 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.