Journal article
Corticosteroids in Community-Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia: a Systematic Review, Pairwise and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis
Abstract
IntroductionInternational guidelines provide heterogenous guidance on use of corticosteroids for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP).MethodsWe performed a systematic review of randomized controlled trials examining corticosteroids in hospitalized adult patients with suspected or probable CAP. We performed a pairwise and dose-response meta-analysis using the restricted maximum likelihood (REML) heterogeneity estimator. We assessed the certainty …
Authors
Pitre T; Abdali D; Chaudhuri D; Pastores SM; Nei AM; Annane D; Rochwerg B; Zeraatkar D
Journal
Journal of General Internal Medicine, Vol. 38, No. 11, pp. 2593–2606
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
8 2023
DOI
10.1007/s11606-023-08203-6
ISSN
0884-8734