Therapeutic swallowing exercises vs sham: Adverse event: Weight loss (> 10%) Change in nutritional status reflected by a patient's weight at 6 weeks after treatment
It is very uncertain whether therapeutic swallowing exercises changes adverse event: Weight loss (> 10%) Change in nutritional status… compared with sham intervention (very low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Therapeutic swallowing exercises vs sham intervention Adverse event: Weight loss (> 10%) Change in nutritional status reflected by a patient's weight at 6 weeks after treatment · adults with advanced head and neck cancer It is very uncertain whether therapeutic swallowing exercises changes adverse event: Weight loss (> 10%) Change in nutritional status… compared with sham intervention (very low certainty). Therapeutic exercises for affecting post‐treatment swallowing in people treated for advanced‐stage head and… (2016) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.62 [0.22, 1.71] | 1 study · 27 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Therapeutic exercises for affecting post‐treatment swallowing in people treated for advanced‐stage head and neck cancers 2016 · 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.