Postsurgical medical therapy vs placebo or no treatment: Pain recurrence (dichotomous) Pain recurrence ≤ 12 months
Post‐surgical medical therapy showed no clear difference in pain (dichotomous) ‐ Pain recurrence </= 12 months compared with placebo or no treatment (low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Post‐surgical medical therapy vs placebo or no treatment Pain (dichotomous) ‐ Pain recurrence </= 12 months · patients with endometriosis Post‐surgical medical therapy showed no clear difference in pain (dichotomous) ‐ Pain recurrence </= 12 months compared with placebo or no treatment (low certainty). Pre‐ and postsurgical medical therapy for endometriosis surgery (2004) · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyearlier version CD003678.PUB2, superseded | RR 0.76 [0.52, 1.1] | 3 studies · 332 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre‐ and postsurgical medical therapy for endometriosis surgery 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.