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Tonsillectomy vs tonsillotomy: Reduction in pain intensity
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Tonsillectomy vs tonsillotomy Severity of postoperative pain (Rated by parents using a 10‐point visual analogue scale) · children aged 2 years up to the age of 16 years with obstructive sleep‐disordered breathing Tonsillectomy versus tonsillotomy for obstructive sleep‐disordered breathing in children (2020) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | no estimate extracted | 4 studies · 368 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tonsillectomy versus tonsillotomy for obstructive sleep‐disordered breathing in children 2020 · 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
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