Surgery for Bell's palsy vs medical treatment (oral prednisolone) or no treatment: Complete recovery of facial nerve function at 12 months Defined as: complete recovery HB grade I.
It is very uncertain whether surgery for Bell's palsy changes complete recovery of facial nerve function at 12 months Defined as:… compared with medical treatment (oral prednisolone) or no treatment (very low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Surgery for Bell's palsy vs medical treatment (oral prednisolone) or no treatment Complete recovery of facial nerve function at 12 months Defined as: complete recovery HB grade I. · Bell's palsy It is very uncertain whether surgery for Bell's palsy changes complete recovery of facial nerve function at 12 months Defined as:… compared with medical treatment (oral prednisolone) or no treatment (very low certainty). Surgical interventions for the early management of Bell's palsy (2021) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.76 | 2 studies · 57 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgical interventions for the early management of Bell's palsy 2021 · 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.