High dose clonidine vs low dose clonidine: Number requiring additional analgesia required postoperatively ‐ moderate quality studies
High dose clonidine may leads to lower number requiring additional analgesia required postoperatively ‐… compared with low dose clonidine (low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
High dose clonidine vs low dose clonidine Number requiring additional analgesia required postoperatively ‐ moderate quality studies · patients with postoperative pain High dose clonidine may leads to lower number requiring additional analgesia required postoperatively ‐… compared with low dose clonidine (low certainty). Clonidine premedication for postoperative analgesia in children (2014) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.38 [0.23, 0.65] | 1 study · 60 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clonidine premedication for postoperative analgesia in children 2014 · 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.