Effectiveness of management strategies for uninvestigated dyspepsia: systematic review and network meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the effectiveness of management strategies for uninvestigated dyspepsia.

Design

Systematic review and network meta-analysis.

Data sources

Medline, Embase, Embase Classic, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and clinicaltrials.gov from inception to September 2019, with no language restrictions. Conference proceedings between 2001 and 2019.

Eligibility criteria for selecting studies

Randomised controlled trials that assessed the effectiveness of management strategies for uninvestigated dyspepsia in adult participants (age ≥18 years). Strategies of interest were prompt endoscopy; test for Helicobacter pylori and perform endoscopy in participants who test positive; test for H pylori and eradication treatment in t

SUBMITTER: Eusebi LH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7190054 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature