Tapered methadone vs any other treatment: Abstinents at
Tapered methadone showed no clear difference in number of participants abstinent at compared with any other treatment (high certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Tapered methadone vs any other treatment Number of participants abstinent at · patients with the management of opioid withdrawal Tapered methadone showed no clear difference in number of participants abstinent at compared with any other treatment (high certainty). Methadone at tapered doses for the management of opioid withdrawal (2013) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.98 [0.7, 1.37] | 3 studies · 386 participants | High |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Methadone at tapered doses for the management of opioid withdrawal 2013 · 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.