Combined oral and intravenous vs oral or intravenous alone: Wound infection
Combined oral and intravenous leads to lower surgical wound infection: oral + iv versus iv alone compared with oral or intravenous alone (high certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Combined oral and intravenous vs oral or intravenous alone Surgical wound infection: oral + iv versus iv alone · colorectal surgery Combined oral and intravenous leads to lower surgical wound infection: oral + iv versus iv alone compared with oral or intravenous alone (high certainty). Antimicrobial prophylaxis for colorectal surgery (2014) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.55 [0.43, 0.71] | 15 studies · 2929 participants | High |
Combined oral and intravenous vs oral or intravenous alone Surgical wound infection: combined oral and iv versus oral alone · colorectal surgery Combined oral and intravenous leads to lower surgical wound infection: combined oral and iv versus oral alone compared with oral or intravenous alone (high certainty). Antimicrobial prophylaxis for colorectal surgery (2014) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.52 [0.35, 0.76] | 9 studies · 1880 participants | High |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antimicrobial prophylaxis for colorectal surgery 2014 · 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.