Adjunctive steroid therapy for managing pulmonary tuberculosis

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2014, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Critchley, Julia A ^a   Orton, Lois C ^b   Pearson, Fiona ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; STEROID;

ADVERSE EVENT; ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; BODY WEIGHT CHANGE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DATA BASE; DISABILITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEVER; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MORTALITY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; REVIEW; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; CAUSE OF DEATH; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEVER; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STEROIDS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84922254528     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD011370     Document Type: Review

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