Antenatal Glucocorticoids for Late Preterm Birth?

Caroline A Crowther, Jane E Harding

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Article in The New England journal of medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it

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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

Strategies for optimising antenatal corticosteroid administration for women with anticipated preterm birth.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020
Pooled it
Antenatal corticosteroid administration and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in childhood: a regression discontinuity study.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2022
Article
Antenatal corticosteroid administration and early school age child development: A regression discontinuity study in British Columbia, Canada.PLoS medicine · 2020
Observational
Associations Between Maternal Antenatal Corticosteroid Treatment and Mental and Behavioral Disorders in Children.JAMA · 2020
Article
Prediction of neonatal respiratory morbidity by quantitative ultrasound lung texture analysis: a multicenter study.American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2017
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Comment on
Antenatal Betamethasone for Women at Risk for Late Preterm Delivery.2016

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Caroline A CrowtherFrom the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (C.A.C., J.E.H.) and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women's and Children's Hospital, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia (C.A.C.).

Jane E HardingFrom the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (C.A.C., J.E.H.) and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women's and Children's Hospital, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia (C.A.C.).

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetamethasoneFemaleGlucocorticoidsHumansInfant, Premature, DiseasesPregnancyRespiratory Tract DiseasesBetamethasoneGlucocorticoids

Identifiers

PMID27050210

DOI10.1056/NEJMe1601867

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