title: Antibiotics are not beneficial in the management of category III prostatitis: a meta analysis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine whether antibiotics are beneficial in the management of category III prostatitis.
  
  
  METHODS
  The PubMed, Medline and Embase databases were searched for all published documents from January 1, 1965 to September 1, 2012 without language restriction. The randomized controlled trials that mentioned comparable groups of antibiotics treatment versus placebo or other control group for patients with category III prostatitis were included based on specific criteria. The quality of studies was assessed by the modified Jadad scale, and Revman 5.0 software was used for data syntheses and analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Seven studies which met the selection criteria were included in this review. All of them were high quality according to the modified Jadad scale. A random effect model was applied because of the high heterogeneity. The meta-analysis showed that summary association between category III prostatitis and antibiotics were not statistically significant.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our meta-analysis reveals that antibiotics are not beneficial in the management of category III prostatitis. Therefore, we may reduce the usage of antibiotics in such a population.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou,China. zhuyongtong@sina.com.
authors.forename: Yongtong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: Section 5 Department of Internal Medicine, Guilin TCM Hospital of China, Guilin, China. wcyling@sina.com.cn.
authors.forename: Chunyan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Xiang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Pang
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.41240699@qq.com.
authors.forename: Fei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Wanlong
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tan
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011472:Prostatitis / Q000145:classification / Q000188:drug therapy*; D017211:Treatment Failure
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents