Any antibiotics versus placebo or no treatment for operative vaginal delivery

Population: women undergoing operative vaginal delivery
Settings: a hospital in USA
Intervention: any antibiotics

Comparison: placebo or no treatment

Endometritis

RR 0.07
(0 to 1.21)

393
(1 study)

⊕⊕⊝⊝
low¹

Maternal length of hospital stay (days)

393
(1 study)

⊕⊕⊝⊝
low¹

Fever

0 (no study)

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This outcome was not reported in the one included study.

Infected episiotomy/perineal/vaginal laceration

0 (no study)

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This outcome was not reported in the one included study.

Urinary tract infection

0 (no study)

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This outcome was not reported in the one included study.

Serious infectious complications

0 (no study)

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This outcome was not reported in the one included study.

Maternal adverse reactions

0 (no study)

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This outcome was not reported in the one included study.

*The basis for the assumed risk (e.g. the median control group risk across studies) is provided in footnotes. The corresponding risk (and its 95% confidence interval) is based on the assumed risk in the comparison group and the relative effect of the intervention (and its 95% CI).
CI: Confidence interval; RR: Risk ratio;

GRADE Working Group grades of evidence
High quality: Further research is very unlikely to change our confidence in the estimate of effect.
Moderate quality: Further research is likely to have an important impact on our confidence in the estimate of effect and may change the estimate.
Low quality: Further research is very likely to have an important impact on our confidence in the estimate of effect and is likely to change the estimate.
Very low quality: We are very uncertain about the estimate.