Probiotics vs control: Mortality before hospital discharge
Probiotics probably leads to lower mortality (all‐cause before hospital discharge) compared with control (moderate certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Probiotics vs control All‐cause mortality (before hospital discharge) · very preterm or very low birth weight infants Probiotics to prevent necrotising enterocolitis in very preterm or very low birth weight infants (2023) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | no estimate extracted | 54 studies · 10484 participants | Moderate |
Probiotics vs control Mortality (all‐cause before hospital discharge) · very preterm or very low birth weight infants Probiotics probably leads to lower mortality (all‐cause before hospital discharge) compared with control (moderate certainty). Probiotics to prevent necrotising enterocolitis in very preterm or very low birth weight infants (2020) · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyearlier version CD005496.PUB5, superseded | RR 0.76 [0.65, 0.89] | 51 studies · 10170 participants | Moderate |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Probiotics to prevent necrotising enterocolitis in very preterm or very low birth weight infants 2023 · 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.