Antibiotics vs no intervention: Clinical improvement
It is very uncertain whether any antibiotic treatment changes clinical improvement compared with no intervention (very low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Any antibiotic treatment vs no intervention Clinical improvement · sexual partners of women with bacterial vaginosis It is very uncertain whether any antibiotic treatment changes clinical improvement compared with no intervention (very low certainty). Antibiotic treatment for the sexual partners of women with bacterial vaginosis (2016) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.93 [0.7, 1.25] | 2 studies · 152 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antibiotic treatment for the sexual partners of women with bacterial vaginosis 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.