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The role of corticosteroids in severe community-acquired pneumonia: a systematic review

Jorge IF Salluh1,2*, Pedro Póvoa3, Márcio Soares1, Hugo C Castro-Faria-Neto2, Fernando A Bozza4 and Patrícia T Bozza2

Author Affiliations

1 Intensive Care Unit, Instituto Nacional de Câncer, Praça Cruz Vermelha, 23, 10 andar – Centro, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil 20230-130

2 Immunopharmacology Laboratory, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Av. Brasil, 4365, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil 21045-900

3 Medical Intensive Care Unit, Hospital de São Francisco Xavier. Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental, Estrada do Forte do Alto do Duque, CEP 1449-005 Lisboa, Portugal

4 Instituto de Pesquisa Clínica Evandro Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil, 4365, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil 21045-900

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Critical Care 2008, 12:434 doi:10.1186/cc7107

Published: 7 November 2008

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

Following the publication of the above article [1], we noticed that in Table 1, concerning the data of the study from Garcia-Vidal the dose of methylprednisolone is not 14.5 mg/day but 45 mg/day.