Vitrectomy vs vitreous tap biopsy and antibiotic injection: Improvement in visual acuity at 3 months'
It is very uncertain whether vitrectomy changes proportion of people with a visual acuity improvement of 10 letters… compared with vitreous tap biopsy and antibiotic injection (very low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Vitrectomy vs vitreous tap biopsy and antibiotic injection Proportion of people with a visual acuity improvement of 10 letters or more · people with endophthalmitis following intraocular surgery It is very uncertain whether vitrectomy changes proportion of people with a visual acuity improvement of 10 letters… compared with vitreous tap biopsy and antibiotic injection (very low certainty). Early vitrectomy for exogenous endophthalmitis following surgery (2022) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | no estimate extracted | 1 study · 420 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early vitrectomy for exogenous endophthalmitis following surgery 2022 · 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.