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. 2020 Feb 25;2020(2):CD013543. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013543

Summary of findings 5. Installation of safety nets to restrict the availability of, or access to, means of suicide by jumping.

Safety nets
Patients or population: adults or children of all ethnicities
Setting: natural or man‐made points of elevation
Intervention: interventions to restrict the availability of, or access to, means of suicide by jumping
Comparison: any other intervention or no intervention
Outcomes Absolute effects Relative effect
 (95% CI) No of participants
 (studies) Quality of the evidence
 (GRADE) Comments
Before intervention After intervention
Suicide
(Observation period: pre‐intervention 19.5 years; postintervention 6.5 years)
22 1 IRR = 0.09, 95% CI 0.01 to 1.30 2 studies ⊕⊕⊝⊝
Lowa,b
 
Attempted suicide  
Study withdrawal  
Change in hospital admission rates  
Cost‐effectiveness of interventions  
CI: confidence interval; IRR: incidence rate 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.

aUpgraded by one level because of large magnitude of intervention effect

bDowngraded by one level due to methodological limitations of the included studies and heterogeneity.