DSIP in alcohol use disorder — evidence extract
The Institute's graded assessment of DSIP for alcohol use disorder, with the contributing trials and the domain-by-domain certainty reasoning.
§1Evidence extract: Alcohol use disorder
§1.1Question and anchor outcome
- Population
- A pattern of alcohol use characterised by impaired control, salience, and physiological features, meeting recognised diagnostic criteria.
- Intervention
- DSIP, subcutaneous, intravenous or intranasal in historical studies
- Comparator
- As used in each contributing trial; reported per trial rather than pooled across comparator types
- Anchor outcome
- Drinks per drinking day
Additional outcomes the Institute extracts for this indication: Heavy drinking days; Percentage days abstinent; Alcohol craving scale score.
§1.2Contributing trials
No trial has been identified for DSIP in alcohol use disorder. The rating below reflects that absence.
§1.3Certainty assessment
Table 2. Reasoning recorded against each certainty domain.
| Domain | Rating | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|
| Risk of bias | No concern | No serious concern identified in this domain. |
| Inconsistency | No concern | No serious concern identified in this domain. |
| Indirectness | Very serious | An outcome that would answer the question was not measured in any contributing trial. |
| Imprecision | Serious | A single small trial contributes the whole estimate. |
| Publication bias | No concern | No serious concern identified in this domain. |
| Overall rating: Very low certainty. The Institute has very little confidence in the effect estimate. The true effect is likely to be substantially different from the estimate. In this series a very low rating most often reflects an absence of controlled human evidence rather than conflicting evidence. | ||
§1.4What this extract does not establish
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