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Monthly pulsed high‐dose dexamethasone vs prednisolone: Change in MRC sum score

What each review found

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FindingEffectStudiesGRADE certainty
Monthly pulsed high‐dose dexamethasone vs oral prednisolone
Change in impairment: change in MRC sum score at endpoint4 · people with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy
Corticosteroids for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (2017) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
no estimate extracted1 study · 39 participantsLow
Monthly pulsed high‐dose dexamethasone vs oral prednisolone
Change in MRC sum score · people with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy
Corticosteroids for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (2015) · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyearlier version CD002062.PUB3, superseded
no estimate extracted1 study · 39 participantsHigh
Monthly pulsed high‐dose dexamethasone vs oral prednisolone
Change in MRC sum score · patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy
Corticosteroids for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (2012) · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyearlier version CD002062.PUB2, superseded
no estimate extracted1 study · 39 participantsHigh

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

The reviews

ReviewSearched up toIncluded studiesAMSTAR 2
Corticosteroids for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy
2017 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
Not reportedlist not extracted yetNot assessed

Studies behind the findings

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How reviews are matched to this question

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