Corticosteroids for Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) With Different Disease Severity: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Efficacy and safety of corticosteroids in patients with 2019-nCoV (novel coronavirus 2019) infection still are debated. Because large randomized clinical trials (RCTs) and a well-conducted meta-analysis on the use of corticosteroids, focused on patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in intensive care units, recently were published, a meta-analysis of RCTs on corticosteroids therapy in patients with different disease severity was performed to evaluate the effect on survival.

Design

A meta-analyses of RCTs was performed.

Setting

Patients admitted to hospital.

Participants

Patients with coronavirus disease.

Interventions

Administration of corticosteroids.

Measurements and main results

A search was performed for RCTs of adult patients

SUBMITTER: Pasin L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7698829 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature