Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
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J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc · Mar 2015
Multicenter StudyAdjunct Systemic Corticosteroid Therapy in Children With Community-Acquired Pneumonia in the Outpatient Setting.
The role of adjunct systemic corticosteroid therapy in children with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is not known. The objective was to determine the association between adjunct systemic corticosteroid therapy and treatment failure in children who received antibiotics for treatment of CAP in the outpatient setting. ⋯ Adjunct corticosteroid therapy was associated with treatment failure among children diagnosed with CAP who did not have underlying asthma.