Findings

What do systematic reviews say?

4 questions · 4 findings · 1 reviews · Airways

No studies found 0 · 0%GRADE not reported 3 · 75%Very low 1 · 25%Low 0 · 0%Moderate 0 · 0%High 0 · 0%

All‐cause mortality · patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

1 finding from 1 review

Head‐to‐head oral prophylactic antibiotic therapy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 2019 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
no estimate extracted
1 study · 50 participants
GRADE not reported

All‐cause mortality · patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

1 finding from 1 review

Head‐to‐head oral prophylactic antibiotic therapy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 2019 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
no estimate extracted
1 study · 50 participants
GRADE not reported

All‐cause mortality · patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

1 finding from 1 review

Head‐to‐head oral prophylactic antibiotic therapy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 2019 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
no estimate extracted
1 study · 50 participants
GRADE not reported

All‐cause mortality 60 weeks (end of study) · patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

It is very uncertain whether macrolide+tetracycline changes all‐cause mortality 60 weeks (end of study) compared with macrolide (very low certainty).

1 finding from 1 review

Head‐to‐head oral prophylactic antibiotic therapy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 2019 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
OR 1.63 [0.38, 7.02]
1 study · 198 participants
Very low