Question · asked by 1 review
Acyclovir vs placebo, vitamins, or no treatment: Serious adverse events, i.e. serious enough to require withdrawal of the treatment
- Population
- pityriasis rosea
- Intervention
- Acyclovir
- Comparison
- placebo, vitamins, or no treatment
- Outcome
- Serious adverse events, i.e. serious enough to require withdrawal of the treatment
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Acyclovir vs placebo, vitamins, or no treatment Serious adverse events, i.e. serious enough to require withdrawal of the treatment · pityriasis rosea Interventions for pityriasis rosea (2019) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | no estimate extracted | 3 studies · 141 participants | Moderate |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interventions for pityriasis rosea 2019 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | Not extracted | Not assessed |
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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.