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Emergency Medicine Journal 2003;20:264; doi:10.1136/emj.20.3.264
© 2003 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the College of Emergency Medicine.

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Type of oral cortiosteroid in mild to moderate croup

A Corfield, Specialist Registrar and S Teece

Department of Emergency Medicine, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9WL, UK; kevin.mackway-jones{at}man.ac.uk

Report by A Corfield, Specialist Registrar
Checked by S Teece, Clinical Research Fellow

ABSTRACT

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether oral dexamethasone is better than oral prednisolone at improving outcome in children with mild to moderate croup. Altogether 139 papers were found using the reported search, of which none presented any evidence to answer the clinical question. It is concluded that there is no evidence available to answer this question. Further research is needed.


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