Antiepileptic drugs vs placebo or usual care: Late seizures (number of seizures)
It is very uncertain whether antiepileptic drugs changes late seizures Count of events compared with placebo or standard care (very low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Antiepileptic drugs vs placebo or standard care Late seizures Count of events · people with traumatic head injuries It is very uncertain whether antiepileptic drugs changes late seizures Count of events compared with placebo or standard care (very low certainty). Pharmacological treatments for preventing epilepsy following traumatic head injury (2015) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.91 [0.57, 1.46] | 6 studies · 1029 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacological treatments for preventing epilepsy following traumatic head injury 2015 · 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.