Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 254-263 (March 2010) Adjunctive dexamethasone in bacterial meningitis: a meta-analysis of individual patient data Diederik van de Beek, MD, Jeremy J Farrar, FRCP, Jan de Gans, MD, Nguyen Thi Hoang Mai, MD, Elizabeth M Molyneux, FRCPCH, Heikki Peltola, MD, Tim E Peto, FRCP, Irmeli Roine, MD, Mathew Scarborough, MD, Constance Schultsz, MD, Guy E Thwaites, MRCP, Phung Quoc Tuan, MD, AH Zwinderman, PhD The Lancet Neurology Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 254-263 (March 2010) DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(10)70023-5 Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Literature search The Lancet Neurology 2010 9, 254-263DOI: (10.1016/S1474-4422(10)70023-5) Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions
Figure 2 Subgroup analyses for death BM=bacterial meningitis. OR=odds ratio. The Lancet Neurology 2010 9, 254-263DOI: (10.1016/S1474-4422(10)70023-5) Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions
Figure 3 Subgroup analyses for death BM=bacterial meningitis. OR=odds ratio. The Lancet Neurology 2010 9, 254-263DOI: (10.1016/S1474-4422(10)70023-5) Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions
Figure 4 Effect of adjunctive dexamethasone therapy on death Trials included in the rest of this study12–16 and other studies17–27,30–35 included in the Cochrane systematic review8 are shown. OR=odds ratio. *Study 1 in Lebel.24 †Study 2 in Lebel.24 The Lancet Neurology 2010 9, 254-263DOI: (10.1016/S1474-4422(10)70023-5) Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions