What Antibiotic Regimen Is Most Efficacious in Treating Pelvic Inflammatory Disease?

The authors included 37 randomized controlled trials for analysis, with patients from a wide range of inpatient and outpatient settings in different countries. Of these patients, investigators reported 81.1% with clinical cure. Overall, there were no differences in the rates of clinical cure or adverse effects requiring treatment discontinuation according to the 5 treatment regimens, although much of the evidence quality ranged from very low to moderate. One study at low risk for bias that compared azithromycin versus doxycycline among patients with mild to moderate pelvic inflammatory disease found that azithromycin was superior to doxycycline, with relative risk 1.35 (95% confidence interval 1.10 to 1.67; 133 subjects).

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