Adjunctive steroid vs placebo: Hearing loss
Adjunctive steroid showed no clear difference in hearing loss at 2 years of age compared with placebo (low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Adjunctive steroid vs placebo Hearing loss at 2 years of age · neonates with clinical and microbiological features of bacterial meningitis Adjunctive steroid showed no clear difference in hearing loss at 2 years of age compared with placebo (low certainty). Adjuvant corticosteroids for reducing death in neonatal bacterial meningitis (2015) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 1.8 [0.18, 18.21] | 1 study · 38 participants | Low |
Adjunctive steroid vs placebo Hearing loss at 4 to 10 weeks after discharge · neonates with clinical and microbiological features of bacterial meningitis Adjunctive steroid may leads to lower hearing loss at 4 to 10 weeks after discharge compared with placebo (low certainty). Adjuvant corticosteroids for reducing death in neonatal bacterial meningitis (2015) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.41 [0.17, 0.98] | 1 study · 59 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adjuvant corticosteroids for reducing death in neonatal bacterial meningitis 2015 · 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.