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Summary of findings table ‐ Corticosteroids plus standard care vs placebo or usual care: Adverse events: all grades

What each review found

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FindingEffectStudiesGRADE certainty
Summary of findings table ‐ Corticosteroids plus standard care vs standard care (plus/minus placebo)
Adverse events (any grade) ( · hospitalised and unvaccinated individuals with a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of symptomatic COVID‐19
Systemic corticosteroids for the treatment of COVID‐19: Equity‐related analyses and update on evidence (2022) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
no estimate extracted3 studies · 447 participantsVery low

Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.

The reviews

ReviewSearched up toIncluded studiesAMSTAR 2
Systemic corticosteroids for the treatment of COVID‐19: Equity‐related analyses and update on evidence
2022 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
Not reportedlist not extracted yetNot assessed

Studies behind the findings

None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.

How reviews are matched to this question

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