Question

Self‐management interventions vs usual care: Respiratory‐related hospital admissions

Population
patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Intervention
Self‐management interventions
Comparison
usual care
Outcome
Respiratory‐related hospital admissions

Reviews word the same question differently. Two decision models (TypeSafe's Jev and Liquid AI's d1) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others, and rows count as this question only when both agree on all four. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each row.

Reviews
2
current versions
Answers
2
all review versions
GRADE rated
2
answers with a certainty rating
Included studies linked
0
full-text reviews only
No studies 0 · 0%Ungraded 0 · 0%Very low 1 · 50%Low 0 · 0%Moderate 1 · 50%High 0 · 0%

Ungraded means an effect was reported without a GRADE rating; it is not a gap. No studies means the review found nothing to answer the question. The six categories are a display order, not a score.

How each review answered it

Current versions only
QuestionEffectEvidenceStatus / GRADE
Self‐management interventions vs usual care
Respiratory‐related hospital admissions · people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Self‐management interventions for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (2022) · Cochrane
OR 0.75 [0.57, 0.98]3263 participantsVery low
Self‐management interventions including action plans for exacerbations vs usual care
Respiratory‐related hospital admissions · patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Self‐management interventions including action plans for exacerbations versus usual care in patients with… (2017) · Cochrane
OR 0.69 [0.51, 0.94]14 studies · 3157 participantsModerate

Trials and studies behind the answers

The primary studies that full-text reviews tie to these outcomes. Reviews from the Summary of Findings tier list no included studies here, and trials have not yet been matched to questions on their own, so this list is incomplete.

No included studies are linked to these answers yet.