Antibiotic prophylaxis vs no treatment or placebo: Urinary tract infection
Routine antibiotic prophylaxis showed no clear difference in urinary tract infection compared with no treatment or placebo (low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Routine antibiotic prophylaxis vs no treatment or placebo Urinary tract infection · Women who had normal vaginal births Routine antibiotic prophylaxis showed no clear difference in urinary tract infection compared with no treatment or placebo (low certainty). Routine antibiotic prophylaxis after normal vaginal birth for reducing maternal infectious morbidity (2017) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.25 [0.05, 1.19] | 2 studies · 1706 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Routine antibiotic prophylaxis after normal vaginal birth for reducing maternal infectious morbidity 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.