Adjunct systemic corticosteroid therapy in children with community-acquired pneumonia in the outpatient setting

Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 21-27

  Ambroggio, Lilliam ^a,b,d   Test, Matthew ^a   Metlay, Joshua P ^e   Graf, Thomas R ^f   Blosky, Mary Ann ^f   Macaluso, Maurizio ^b,d   Shah, Samir S ^a,c,d  

^a Divisions of Hospital Medicine   (United States)

^b Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology   (United States)

^c CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f GEISINGER HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Child; Corticosteroid; Pediatric; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; DOXYCYCLINE; MACROLIDE; MEPREDNISONE; PREDNISOLONE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; PREDNISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; COUGHING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMIZED PATIENT; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; TACHYPNEA; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHEEZING; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION DRUG THERAPY; COMPLICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; INFANT; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTPATIENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEXAMETHASONE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTPATIENTS; PNEUMONIA; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 85006234908     PISSN: 20487193     EISSN: 20487207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jpids/piu017     Document Type: Article

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