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 | — |