Non‐invasive ventilation vs usual care: Need for intubation
Non‐invasive ventilation probably leads to lower need for endotracheal intubation compared with usual medical care (moderate certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Non‐invasive ventilation vs usual medical care Need for endotracheal intubation · Patients admitted to hospital with acute hypercapnic respiratory failure due to an exacerbation of chronic obstructive… Non‐invasive ventilation probably leads to lower need for endotracheal intubation compared with usual medical care (moderate certainty). Non‐invasive ventilation for the management of acute hypercapnic respiratory failure due to exacerbation of… (2017) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.36 [0.28, 0.46] | 17 studies · 1105 participants | Moderate |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Non‐invasive ventilation for the management of acute hypercapnic respiratory failure due to exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary… 2017 · 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.