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Review: corticosteroids do not reduce hospital length of stay or respiratory distress in infantile acute viral bronchiolitis

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    Patel H, Platt R, Lozano JM, et al. Glucocorticoids for acute viral bronchiolitis in infants and young children. Cochrane Database Syst Rev2004;(3):CD004878.



    Q In infants and young children with acute viral bronchiolitis, do systemic corticosteroids shorten hospital length of stay (LOS) or improve respiratory distress more than placebo or no corticosteroid treatment?

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    Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (issue 3, 2003), Medline (1966 to September 2003), EMBASE/Excerpta Medica (January 1990 to September 2003), Current Contents (1998–2000), and SCISEARCH; reference lists of general paediatric, infectious diseases, and respirology textbooks; reference lists of retrieved studies and recent review articles; meeting abstracts; authors of published abstracts; and experts in the field.

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    • For correspondence: Dr H Patel, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Hema.patelmuhc.mcgill.ca

    • Source of funding: not stated.

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