| # | Searches | Results |
| 1 | exp Adrenal Cortex Hormones/ | 417823 |
| 2 | exp Steroids/ | 904908 |
| 3 | (adrenal cortex hormone* or adrenal cortical hormone* or adrenocorticosteroid* or adrenocortical hormone* or becotide or beclomethasone or betamethasone or budenosid* or corticoid? or corticosteroid* or dexamethason* or flixotid* or fluticason* or glucocorticoid* or hydrocortison* or methylprednisolon* or prednisolon* or pulmicort or steroid*).mp. | 713253 |
| 4 | or/1‐3 [Steroids] | 1216979 |
| 5 | Administration, Inhalation/ | 33429 |
| 6 | exp Aerosols/ | 35335 |
| 7 | exp "nebulizers and vaporizers"/ or metered dose inhalers/ or inhalation spacers/ | 12500 |
| 8 | (aerosol* or aeroliz* or aerolis* or inhal* or nebulis* or nebuliz* or vapori* or ((vapor? or vapour?) adj2 therap*)).mp. | 237515 |
| 9 | or/5‐8 [Inhalation ‐‐administration] | 238276 |
| 10 | exp Infant, Newborn/ or Intensive Care, Neonatal/ or Intensive Care Units, Neonatal/ or Gestational Age/ | 708315 |
| 11 | (babe or babes or baby* or babies or gestational age? or infant? or infantile or infancy or low birth weight or low birthweight or neonat* or neo‐nat* or newborn* or new born? or newly born or premature or pre‐mature or pre‐matures or prematures or prematurity or pre‐maturity or preterm or preterms or pre term? or preemie or preemies or premies or premie or VLBW or VLBWI or VLBW‐I or VLBWs or LBW or LBWI or LBWs or ELBW or ELBWI or ELBWs or NICU or NICUs).ti,ab,kw,kf. | 1007889 |
| 12 | or/10‐11 [Filter: Neonatal Population 04‐2022‐MEDLINE] | 1317487 |
| 13 | randomized controlled trial.pt. | 575980 |
| 14 | controlled clinical trial.pt. | 95010 |
| 15 | randomized.ti,ab. | 623063 |
| 16 | placebo.ti,ab. | 237532 |
| 17 | drug therapy.fs. | 2525004 |
| 18 | randomly.ti,ab. | 391215 |
| 19 | trial.ti,ab. | 713575 |
| 20 | groups.ti,ab. | 2428639 |
| 21 | or/13‐20 [Cochrane HSSS‐SM Filter; Box 6.4.a Cochrane Handbook] | 5514162 |
| 22 | (quasirandom* or quasi‐random* or randomi* or randomly).ti,ab,kw,kf. | 1064289 |
| 23 | (control* adj2 (group? or random* or trial? or study)).ti,ab,kw,kf. | 1060436 |
| 24 | or/22‐23 [Additional terms to increase sensitivity] | 1645861 |
| 25 | exp animals/ not humans/ | 5041586 |
| 26 | (or/21,24) not 25 [RCT Filter: Medline] | 5056374 |
| 27 | meta‐analysis/ or "systematic review"/ or network meta‐analysis/ [/ finds same as.pt. syntax] | 284592 |
| 28 | ((systematic* adj3 (review* or overview*)) or (methodologic* adj3 (review* or overview*))).ti,ab,kf,kw. | 282815 |
| 29 | ((integrative adj3 (review* or overview*)) or (collaborative adj3 (review* or overview*)) or (pool* adj3 analy*)).ti,ab,kf,kw. | 35637 |
| 30 | (data synthes* or data extraction* or data abstraction*).ti,ab,kf,kw. | 36584 |
| 31 | (hand search* or handsearch*).ti,ab,kf,kw. | 10647 |
| 32 | (mantel haenszel or peto or der simonian or dersimonian or fixed effect* or latin square*).ti,ab,kf,kw. | 32988 |
| 33 | meta‐analysis as topic/ or network meta‐analysis/ | 25531 |
| 34 | (meta analy* or metanaly* or meta regression* or metaregression*).ti,ab,kf,kw. | 246611 |
| 35 | (medline or cochrane or pubmed or medlars or embase or cinahl).ab. | 301086 |
| 36 | (cochrane or systematic review?).jw. | 19451 |
| 37 | or/27‐36 [SR filter‐Medline; based on CADTH https://searchfilters.cadth.ca] | 568750 |
| 38 | 4 and 9 and 12 [Steroids AND Inhalation‐‐Administration AND Neonate] | 1682 |
| 39 | 38 and 37 and 202*.yr. [Systematic Review Results 2020‐] | 21 |
| 40 | 38 and 26 [RCT Results] | 1031 |
| 41 | 40 and (2017* or 2018* or 2019* or 202*).yr. [RCT Results 2017‐] | 172 |