Table 2 Summary of the GRADE assessment of the evidence on the use of outpatient electrical stimulation associated with home ES in the treatment of urinary incontinence in women
Certainty assessment | № of patients | Effect | Certainty | Importance | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
№ of studies | Study design | Risk of bias | Inconsistency | Indirectness | Imprecision | Other considerations | ES domiciliar | ES ambulatorial | Relative (95% CI) | Absolute (95% CI) | ||
Cure or improvement of urinary symptoms (follow-up: mean 6 months; assessed with: scale of 1–19) | ||||||||||||
3 | randomised trials | seriousa | seriousb | not serious | seriousc | none | 97 | 96 | - | 0 (0 to 0) | ⨁◯◯◯ Very low | CRÍTICO |
Quality of life (follow-up: mean 6 months; assessed with: scale 0–6) | ||||||||||||
3 | randomised trials | seriousa | seriousb | not serious | seriousc | none | 72 | 72 | - | 0 (0 to 0) | ⨁◯◯◯ Very low | CRÍTICO |
Urine loss (Pad-test) (follow-up: mean 6 months; assessed with: g) | ||||||||||||
2 | randomised trials | seriousa | seriousd | not serious | seriousc | none | 55 | 54 | - | 0 (0 to 0) | ⨁◯◯◯ Very low | CRÍTICO |
Home electrical stimulation in maintaining improvement in urinary symptoms (follow-up: mean 6 months; assessed with: escales; Scale from: 0 to 100) | ||||||||||||
2 | randomised trials | seriousa | not serious | not serious | seriousc | none | 42 | 42 | - | 0 (0 to 0) | ⨁⨁◯◯ Low | CRÍTICO |
Severity of urinary symptoms (follow-up: mean 6 months; assessed with: scale of 0–19) | ||||||||||||
1 | randomised trials | not serious | not serious | not serious | seriousc | none | 12 | 12 | - | 0 (0 to 0) | ⨁⨁⨁◯ Moderate | CRÍTICO |