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Methylnaltrexone vs placebo: Laxation response: risk of spontaneous rescue‐free bowel movements in the short terma

Methylnaltrexone may leads to higher laxation response: risk of spontaneous rescue‐free bowel… compared with placebo (low certainty).

What each review found

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FindingEffectStudiesGRADE certainty
Methylnaltrexone vs placebo
Laxation response: risk of spontaneous rescue‐free bowel movementsain the short termb · people receiving palliative care irrespective of whether they had cancer with opioid‐induced bowel dysfunction
Methylnaltrexone may leads to higher laxation response: risk of spontaneous rescue‐free bowel… compared with placebo (low certainty).
Mu‐opioid antagonists for opioid‐induced bowel dysfunction in people with cancer and people receiving… (2022) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
RR 2.97 [2.13, 4.13]2 studies · 287 participantsLow

Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.

The reviews

ReviewSearched up toIncluded studiesAMSTAR 2
Mu‐opioid antagonists for opioid‐induced bowel dysfunction in people with cancer and people receiving palliative care
2022 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
Not reportedlist not extracted yetNot 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.