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Corticosteroids vs placebo: Pain resolution

Corticosteroids leads to higher complete resolution of pain at 24 hours compared with placebo (high certainty).

What each review found

Finding	Effect	Studies	GRADE certainty
Corticosteroids vs placebo Complete resolution of pain at 24 hours · patients with sore throat Corticosteroids leads to higher complete resolution of pain at 24 hours compared with placebo (high certainty). Corticosteroids as standalone or add‐on treatment for sore throat (2020) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only	RR 2.4 [1.29, 4.47]	5 studies · 851 participants	High
Corticosteroids vs placebo Complete resolution of pain at 48 hours · patients with sore throat Corticosteroids leads to higher complete resolution of pain at 48 hours compared with placebo (high certainty). Corticosteroids as standalone or add‐on treatment for sore throat (2020) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only	RR 1.5 [1.27, 1.76]	4 studies · 774 participants	High

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

The reviews

Review	Searched up to	Included studies	AMSTAR 2
Corticosteroids as standalone or add‐on treatment for sore throat 2020 · 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.