Intermittent 'as needed' ICS vs daily ICS: Patients with at least 1 exacerbation requiring emergency department/acute care visit (duration 12 to 52 weeks)
Intermittent 'as needed' ICS showed no clear difference in patients with at least 1 exacerbation requiring emergency… compared with daily ICS (low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Intermittent 'as needed' ICS vs daily ICS Patients with at least 1 exacerbation requiring emergency department/acute care visit (duration 12 to 52 weeks) · Children and adults with persistent asthma. Intermittent 'as needed' ICS showed no clear difference in patients with at least 1 exacerbation requiring emergency… compared with daily ICS (low certainty). Intermittent versus daily inhaled corticosteroids for persistent asthma in children and adults (2013) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 1.08 [0.9, 1.3] | 6 studies · 1055 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intermittent versus daily inhaled corticosteroids for persistent asthma in children and adults 2013 · 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.