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Trial reportAmerican journal of respiratory and critical care medicine2022

Steroid Therapy and Outcome of Parapneumonic Pleural Effusions (STOPPE): A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial.

Deirdre B Fitzgerald, Grant W Waterer, Charley Budgeon, Ranjan Shrestha, Edward T Fysh, Sanjeevan Muruganandan, Christopher Stanley, Tajalli Saghaie, Arash Badiei, Calvin Sidhu and 13 more

Open access · greenAbstract readMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
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In one paragraph

Trial report in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Glucocorticoid Treatment in Community-Acquired Pneumonia.Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine · 2026
    Review
  2. What is new in pleural infections?Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2026
    Review
  3. Surgical interventions for pleural infection.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2025
    Review
  4. Article
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  6. Review
  7. Diagnosis and management of pleural infection.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2023
    Review
  8. Article
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  10. Corticosteroids for Pleural Infection: Should We STOPPE Studying?American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2022
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

23 authors at 12 institutions in 2 countries.

Deirdre B FitzgeraldRespiratory Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-8668-1788
Grant W WatererMedical School, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences.
Charley BudgeonSchool of Population and Global Health, and.
Ranjan ShresthaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia.
Edward T FyshMedical School, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences.
Sanjeevan MuruganandanDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Northern Health, Epping, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0943-4297
Christopher StanleyDepartment of Respiratory Medicine and.
Tajalli SaghaieDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, New South Wales, Australia.
Arash BadieiDepartment of Thoracic Medicine, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Calvin SidhuRespiratory Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia.
Hilman HarryantoDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia.
Victor DuongDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Northern Health, Epping, Victoria, Australia.
Maree AzzopardiRespiratory Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia.
David MannersDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, St. John of God Midland Public and Private Hospitals, Midland, Western Australia, Australia.
Norris S H LanRespiratory Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia.
Natalia D PopowiczRespiratory Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia.
Carolyn J Peddle-McIntyrePleural Medicine Unit, Institute for Respiratory Health, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Najib M RahmanOxford Respiratory Trials Unit and.
Catherine A ReadPleural Medicine Unit, Institute for Respiratory Health, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Ai Ling TanPleural Medicine Unit, Institute for Respiratory Health, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Seng Khee GanMedical School, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences.
Kevin MurraySchool of Population and Global Health, and.
Y C Gary LeeRespiratory Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-0036-511X
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital · AUFiona Stanley Hospital · AUNorthern Health · AUSt John of God Hospital · AUConcord Repatriation General Hospital · AUEdith Cowan University · AUInstitute for Respiratory Health · AUNational Institute for Health Research · GBNorth Metropolitan Health Service · AURoyal Adelaide Hospital · AURoyal Perth Hospital · AUThe University of Western Australia · AU

Funding

Medical Research Council G1001128
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Community-Acquired InfectionsPleural EffusionPneumoniaAdrenal Cortex HormonesAdultAustraliaDexamethasoneHumansPilot ProjectsSteroidsAdrenal Cortex HormonesDexamethasoneSteroidsdexamethasonepleural effusionpneumoniarandomized controlled trialsteroid

Identifiers

PMID35081010
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