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Table 1 Study inclusion criteria

From: Perioperative corticosteroid administration: a systematic review and descriptive analysis

Inclusion criteria

Study designs: RCT, cohort studies, case-studies, SR

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Population:

 Human participants not known to have adrenal insufficiency

 Age ≥ 18 years old

 Noncardiac nontransplant surgery

Intervention: corticosteroid administration before and after surgery

Comparator: standard of care, placebo, or no intervention

Outcomes: adrenal crisis, hypotension or syncope

  1. RCT randomized controlled trials, SR systematic review