Background . Septic shock is common and results in significant morbidity and mortality.
Adjunctive treatment with corticosteroids is common, but definitive data are lacking. We aimed to …

… meta-analysis. The result indicated that critical patients were more likely to require corticosteroids
… However, corticosteroid treatment was associated with higher mortality (RR = 2.11, 95…

… analysis by the duration of corticosteroids treatment, we found that prolonged corticosteroids
treatment (>5 days) was associated with a greater benefit compared with treatment courses …

Objective To systematically review the efficacy of steroids in the prevention of acute respiratory
distress syndrome (ARDS) in critically ill adults, and treatment for established ARDS. …

… Where appropriate, we estimated the effect of corticosteroids by random-effects meta-analyses …
Meta–regression analysis was used to assess the association of corticosteroid dose and …

… corticosteroid treatment given at least seven days after a first course of antenatal corticosteroids…
10 studies, eight of which were included in the meta-analysis (Table 1). In these trials, the …

… This analysis of all renewed data from RCTs suggests that corticosteroid treatment is …
Furthermore, this study showed that corticosteroid treatment may be associated with increased …

… to optimise the use of corticosteroids in ulcerative colitis are lacking. AIM: A meta-analysis
was undertaken to examine critically the role of rectal corticosteroids in the management of …

… mortality and nosocomial infection with corticosteroid treatment. Two authors independently
… in this meta-analysis. The results showed that corticosteroid treatment was significantly …

… overall meta-analysis was no longer statistically significant when we limited the analysis to
… we did not find conclusive evidence of a detrimental effect of corticosteroids in any analysis. …