Extracorporeal shockwave therapy vs control procedure: Prostatitis symptoms: response defined as a 6‐point decrease in NIH‐CPSI score
It is very uncertain whether extracorporeal shockwave therapy changes prostatitis symptoms: response defined as a 6‐point decrease in… compared with control procedure (very low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy vs control procedure Prostatitis symptoms: response defined as a 6‐point decrease in NIH‐CPSI score · participants with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome It is very uncertain whether extracorporeal shockwave therapy changes prostatitis symptoms: response defined as a 6‐point decrease in… compared with control procedure (very low certainty). Non‐pharmacological interventions for treating chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (2018) · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyearlier version CD012551.PUB2, superseded | RR 6.2 [0.48, 79.79] | 2 studies · 135 participants | Very low |
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy vs control procedure Prostatitis symptoms: response defined as a 6‐point decrease in NIH‐CPSI score · participants with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome It is very uncertain whether extracorporeal shockwave therapy changes prostatitis symptoms: response defined as a 6‐point decrease in… compared with control procedure (very low certainty). Non‐pharmacological interventions for treating chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (2018) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 6.2 [0.48, 79.79] | 2 studies · 135 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Non‐pharmacological interventions for treating chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome 2018 · 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.