Acupuncture vs medication: symptom severity (dichotomous outcome) Dichotomous measure of overall symptom severity1
Acupuncture may leads to higher symptom severity (dichotomous outcome) Dichotomous measure of… compared with pharmaceutical medications (low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Acupuncture vs pharmaceutical medications symptom severity (dichotomous outcome) Dichotomous measure of overall symptom severity1 · patients with irritable bowel syndrome Acupuncture may leads to higher symptom severity (dichotomous outcome) Dichotomous measure of… compared with pharmaceutical medications (low certainty). Acupuncture for treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (2012) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 1.28 [1.12, 1.45] | 5 studies · 449 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acupuncture for treatment of irritable bowel syndrome 2012 · 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.