Journal article
Effect of Oral Prednisolone on Symptom Duration and Severity in Nonasthmatic Adults With Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infection: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
- Abstract:
-
Importance Acute lower respiratory tract infection is common and often treated inappropriately in primary care with antibiotics. Corticosteroids are increasingly used but without sufficient evidence.
Objective To assess the effects of oral corticosteroids for acute lower respiratory tract infection in adults without asthma.
Design, Setting, and Participants Multicenter, placebo-controlled, randomized trial (July 2013 to fi...
Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Authors
Funding
National Institute for Health Research
More from this funder
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- American Medical Association Publisher's website
- Journal:
- JAMA Journal website
- Volume:
- 318
- Issue:
- 8
- Pages:
- 721-730
- Publication date:
- 2017-08-22
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-07-21
- DOI:
- EISSN:
-
1538-3598
- ISSN:
-
0098-7484
- Pmid:
-
28829884
- Source identifiers:
-
724116
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
-
pubs:724116
- UUID:
-
uuid:7bd30845-1d37-4cd4-87c3-6f614b75d039
- Local pid:
- pubs:724116
- Deposit date:
- 2017-09-26
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- American Medical Association
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- Copyright 2017 American Medical Association. All rights reserved.
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record