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Corticosteroids for pain relief in sore throat: systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ 2009; 339 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b2976 (Published 06 August 2009) Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b2976

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Sir, It was interesting to read the meta-analysis and systematic
review on the use of corticosteroids for pain relief in sore throat. I
would like to point out an error in this article in figure 4 (Effect of
corticosteroids on mean time to onset of pain relief analysed by subgroup
using meta-regression.), where the statistical values [(I2, Trials (n),
Patients(n), Interaction, Weighted mean difference (random)(95% CI)] for
bacterial pathogen positive and bacterial pathogen negative cases have
been interchanged. This will become more apparent if you read the second
paragraph under the subheading ‘Mean time to onset of pain relief' in the
results section.

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21 January 2010
Prince Cheriyan Modayil
SpR in ENT
Irfan Syed
Royal devon & exeter Hospital, EX2 5DS