Corticosteroids for everyone with meningitis?

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Corticosteroids for bacterial corneal ulcers.The British journal of ophthalmology · 2009
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2. Corticosteroids for bacterial meningitis in adults in sub-Saharan Africa.The New England journal of medicine · 2007
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3. Dexamethasone treatment in adults with pneumococcal meningitis: risk factors for death.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2006
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4. [Therapeutic effects of inulin-type oligosaccharides ofNan fang yi ke da xue xue bao = Journal of Southern Medical University · 2025
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5. Is adjunctive corticosteroid beneficial in pneumococcal meningitis in a region with high rates of resistance to penicillin and ceftriaxone?Journal of neurology · 2012
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6. Bacterial meningitis: epidemiology, pathogenesis and management update.Drugs · 2009
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7. Adjunctive corticosteroids for adults in Vietnam with bacterial meningitis.Current infectious disease reports · 2008
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8. TRAIL limits excessive host immune responses in bacterial meningitis.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2007
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9. Cerebrospinal fluid penetration of vancomycin in adults receiving adjunctive dexamethasone.Current infectious disease reports · 2007
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10. Response to 'Benefits of glucocorticoids in the treatment of bacterial meningitis in children: End of the controversy?'.Paediatrics & child health · 2006
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11. [Not Available].Paediatrics & child health · 2006
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12. Dexamethasone in adults with community-acquired bacterial meningitis.Drugs · 2006
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13. Adjunctive Corticosteroids in Adults with Bacterial Meningitis.Current infectious disease reports · 2005
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14. Neurological outcome after bacterial meningitis: bridging the gap from molecules to behavior.Intensive care medicine · 2005
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15. Bacterial meningitis: diagnosis and treatment.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2003
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16. Adjunctive Dexamethasone in Bacterial Meningitis in Adults.Current infectious disease reports · 2003
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Corrections and comments

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  Dexamethasone in adults with bacterial meningitis.2003
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  Dexamethasone in adults with bacterial meningitis.2003
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  Dexamethasone in adults with bacterial meningitis.2002

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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