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Antenatal corticosteroids to accelerate fetal lung maturation for women at risk of preterm birth

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004454Copy DOI
Database:
  1. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Version published:
  1. 20 October 2003see what's new
Type:
  1. Intervention
Stage:
  1. Protocol
Cochrane Editorial Group:
  1. Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group

Copyright:
  1. Copyright © 2006 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Authors

  • Patricia Crowley

    Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 8, Ireland

  • Devender Roberts

    Correspondence to: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Liverpool Women's Hospital NHS Trust, Liverpool, UK

    [email protected]

  • Stuart R Dalziel

    Clinical Trials Unit, University of Auckland, New Zealand

  • Ben NJ Shaw

    Liverpool Women's Hospital, Liverpool, UK

Contributions of authors

P Crowley published the first review and suggested areas that needed updating in the new review. S Dalziel and D Roberts updated the protocol. B Shaw advised on neonatal aspects of outcome measures in this updated protocol.

Sources of support

Internal sources

  • No sources of support supplied

External sources

  • Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

  • University of Liverpool, UK.

  • Liverpool Women's Hospital, UK.

  • University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Declarations of interest

None known.

Acknowledgements

P Crowley's first, unstructured review of antenatal corticosteroids was conducted at the suggestion of Professor Dennis Hawkins in 1980. Dr Anne Anderson encouraged her to use it as a basis for an early meta‐analysis in 1981. Her work at National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit in 1980 to 1981 was funded by the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, at the suggestion of the then Master, Dr Dermot MacDonald. This review was first published in structured form on the Oxford Database of Perinatal Trials in 1989. The preparation and continued updating of this review would have been impossible without the help of Iain and Jan Chalmers, Marc Keirse, Jini Hetherington, Sonja Henderson and Professor Zarko Alfirevic.

Acknowledgements to Professor James Neilson and Professor Jane Harding for their help with the current update.

Version history

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Authors

Version

2020 Dec 25

Antenatal corticosteroids for accelerating fetal lung maturation for women at risk of preterm birth

Review

Emma McGoldrick, Fiona Stewart, Roses Parker, Stuart R Dalziel

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004454.pub4

2017 Mar 21

Antenatal corticosteroids for accelerating fetal lung maturation for women at risk of preterm birth

Review

Devender Roberts, Julie Brown, Nancy Medley, Stuart R Dalziel

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004454.pub3

2006 Jul 19

Antenatal corticosteroids for accelerating fetal lung maturation for women at risk of preterm birth

Review

Devender Roberts, Stuart R Dalziel

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004454.pub2

2003 Oct 20

Antenatal corticosteroids to accelerate fetal lung maturation for women at risk of preterm birth

Protocol

Patricia Crowley, Devender Roberts, Stuart R Dalziel, Ben NJ Shaw

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004454

Notes

The Review for this Protocol will update and replace the currently published Review 'Prophylactic corticosteroids for preterm birth'.

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PICOs

Population
Intervention
Comparison
Outcome

The PICO model is widely used and taught in evidence-based health care as a strategy for formulating questions and search strategies and for characterizing clinical studies or meta-analyses. PICO stands for four different potential components of a clinical question: Patient, Population or Problem; Intervention; Comparison; Outcome.

See more on using PICO in the Cochrane Handbook.