Findings

What do systematic reviews say?

1 questions · 1 findings · 1 reviews · Airways

No studies found 0 · 0%GRADE not reported 0 · 0%Very low 0 · 0%Low 0 · 0%Moderate 1 · 100%High 0 · 0%

Inpatient mortality · exacerbations of COPD

Antibiotics showed no clear difference in all‐cause mortality ‐ inpatients compared with placebo (moderate certainty).

1 finding from 1 review

Antibiotics for exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 2018 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
OR 2.48 [0.94, 6.55]
2 studies · 214 participants
Moderate