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. 2019 Feb 24;2019(2):CD010406. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD010406.pub3

Li 2012.

Methods Multicentre retrospective cohort
Participants Country: China (Anhui province)
Setting: in‐hospital
Number of sites: not known
Number of individuals: 46
Inclusion criteria: pregnant, severe disease (defined as high fever for > 3 days, haemoptysis with purulent sputum, chest pain, dyspnoea, cyanosis, altered mental state, severe vomiting, diarrhoea and dehydration, radiologically confirmed pneumonia, elevated cardiac enzymes, respiratory failure, sepsis, multi‐organ dysfunction or admission to ICUs
Exclusion criteria: discharge within 24 hours, individuals managed in the outpatient setting
Definition of influenza: laboratory confirmed
Influenza type: 2009 influenza A H1N1 virus (H1N1pdm09)
Median age (years): adults who died 21 (IQR 18 to 31) and survivors 21 (IQR 18 to 27)
Female sex: 46 (100.0)
Disease severity: not reported
Interventions Groups: CS treatment (n = 27) versus no CS treatment (n = 19)
Dose: not reported
Duration of treatment: not reported
Antibiotics: not reported
Antivirals: all given antivirals
Outcomes Mortality
Risk of bias (Newcastle‐Ottawa Scale) Mortality
Selection domain score (max 4): 2
Comparability domain score (max 2): 0
Outcome domain score (max 3): 3
Notes