Observational study of intravenous versus oral corticosteroids for acute asthma: An example of confounding by severity

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 439-445

  Clark, Sunday ^a,b   Costantino, Thomas ^c   Rudnitsky, Gail ^c   Camargo Jr , Carlos A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Confounding by severity; Corticosteroids

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROCORTISONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; PREDNISONE; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; DRUG EFFICACY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK; SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 17144391468     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.11.030     Document Type: Article

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