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Dexamethasone in hospitalized patients with Covid-19 — preliminary report
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BACKGROUND
Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is associated with diffuse lung damage. Glucocorticoids may modulate inflammation-mediated lung injury and thereby reduce progression to respiratory failure and death.
METHODS
In this controlled, open-label trial comparing a range of possible treatments in patients who were hospitalized with Covid-19, we randomly assigned patients to receive oral or intravenous dexamethasone (at a dose of...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1056/NEJMoa2021436
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Medical Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Massachusetts Medical Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- New England Journal of Medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 384
- Issue:
- 8
- Pages:
- 693-704
- Publication date:
- 2020-07-17
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-07-14
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1533-4406
- ISSN:
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0028-4793
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1118880
- Local pid:
- pubs:1118880
- Deposit date:
- 2020-07-15
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- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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