Corticosteroids for severe community-acquired pneumonia: not for everyone.

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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Corticosteroids for pneumonia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017
   Pooled it
2. The Role of Steroids in the Management of COVID-19 Infection.Cureus · 2021
   Article
3. Using cluster analysis of cytokines to identify patterns of inflammation in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia: a pilot study.The University of Louisville journal of respiratory infections · 2017
   Article
4. Time to blood culture positivity as a predictor of clinical outcomes and severity in adults with bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia.PloS one · 2017
   Article
5. New aspects in the management of pneumonia.Critical care (London, England) · 2016
   Review
6. What's new in severe community-acquired pneumonia? Corticosteroids as adjunctive treatment to antibiotics.Intensive care medicine · 2016
   Article
7. Toward Smarter Lumping and Smarter Splitting: Rethinking Strategies for Sepsis and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Clinical Trial Design.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2016
   Review
8. Adjuvant corticosteroids for patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia: is it time?Journal of thoracic disease · 2016
   Article
9. Corticosteroids in the adjunctive therapy of community-acquired pneumonia: an appraisal of recent meta-analyses of clinical trials.Journal of thoracic disease · 2016
   Review
10. Corticosteroids for severe CAP: the pros.Revista Brasileira de terapia intensiva
    Article

Corrections and comments

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  Effect of corticosteroids on treatment failure among hospitalized patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia and high inflammatory response: a randomized clinical trial.2015

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