Table 3 The grade summary of evidence
Certainty assessment | Summary of findings | ||||||||||
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Participants (studies) Follow-up | Risk of bias | Inconsistency | Indirectness | Imprecision | Publication bias | Overall certainty of evidence | Study event rates (%) | Relative effect (95% CI) | Anticipated absolute effects | ||
With compressive gauze | With HDD | Risk with compressive gauze | Risk difference with HDD | ||||||||
HDD vs. Compressive (follow-up: range 1 days to 1 days; assessed with: Time; Scale from: 0.00 to 15) | |||||||||||
680 (7 RCTs) | not serious | not serious | not serious | not serious | very strong association | ⨁⨁⨁⨁ High | 318 | 362 | SMD 3.22 SD lower (3.53 lower to 2.9 lower) | ||