Systemic corticosteroids vs placebo
Mortality or serious adverse events requiring hospital admission · people with radicular low back pain (not due to spinal stenosis)
It is very uncertain whether systemic corticosteroids changes participants who experienced a serious adverse event Adverse event… compared with placebo (very low certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
- Systemic corticosteroids for radicular and non‐radicular low back pain 2022 · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyRR 0.74 [0.13, 4.33]2 studies · 267 participantsVery low