Surgical vs conservative interventions: Treatment failure (indication for non‐routine secondary surgery)
Surgical may leads to lower treatment failure (indication for non‐routine secondary surgery) compared with conservative interventions (low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Surgical vs conservative interventions Treatment failure (indication for non‐routine secondary surgery) · Patients with fracture of the middle third of the clavicle Surgical may leads to lower treatment failure (indication for non‐routine secondary surgery) compared with conservative interventions (low certainty). Surgical versus conservative interventions for treating fractures of the middle third of the clavicle (2013) · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyearlier version CD009363.PUB2, superseded | RR 0.38 [0.15, 0.99] | 5 studies · 437 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgical versus conservative interventions for treating fractures of the middle third of the clavicle 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.