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A pragmatic randomized controlled trial of standard care versus steroids plus standard care for treatment of pneumonia in adults admitted to Kenyan hospitals (SONIA)
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It is unclear if adjunctive steroid therapy reduces mortality in community-acquired pneumonia, as very few studies have had mortality as a primary outcome. This question has become even more relevant following demonstration of a mortality benefit of dexamethasone when used in patients with COVID-19 who had severe disease. This has led to increased prescription of steroids in adults with community acquired pneumonia in low-resource settings even when their COVI... Expand abstract
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Under review
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18401.1
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- Publisher:
- F1000Research
- Journal:
- Wellcome Open Research More from this journal
- Volume:
- 7
- Pages:
- 269-269
- Publication date:
- 2022-10-27
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2398-502X
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- Lucinde et al
- Copyright date:
- 2022
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- © 2022 Lucinde R et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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