Summary of findings 2. Embryo culture with low oxygen concentration compared to embryo culture with atmospheric oxygen concentration for ongoing pregnancy.
Embryo culture with low oxygen concentration compared to embryo culture with atmospheric oxygen concentration for ongoing pregnancy | ||||||
Patient or population: Patients with ongoing pregnancy Settings: Assisted reproductive technologies Intervention: Embryo culture with low oxygen concentration Comparison: Embryo culture with atmospheric oxygen concentration | ||||||
Outcomes | Illustrative comparative risks* (95% CI) | Relative effect (95% CI) | No of Participants (studies) | Quality of the evidence (GRADE) | Comments | |
Assumed risk | Corresponding risk | |||||
Embryo culture with atmospheric oxygen concentration | Embryo culture with low oxygen concentration | |||||
Ongoing pregnancy rate | 312 per 1000 | 388 per 1000 (335 to 445) | OR 1.4 (1.11 to 1.77) | 1291 (3 studies) | ⊕⊕⊕⊝ moderate1 | |
*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; OR: Odds 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. |
1 One of the trials had no allocation concealment and in another trial the method of allocation concealment was unclear