《Effect of dexamethasone on intelligence and hearing in preterm infantsa metaanalysis》.pdfVIP

NEURAL REGENERATION RESEARCH March 2014,Volume 9,Issue 6 Effect of dexamethasone on intelligence and hearing in preterm infants: a meta-analysis Ruolin Zhang, Tao Bo, Li Shen, Senlin Luo, Jian Li Department of Pediatrics, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China Abstract Corresponding author: OBJECTIVE: A meta-analysis of published randomized controlled trials investigating the long- Jian Li, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, term effect of dexamethasone on the nervous system of preterm infants. Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South DATA SOURCES: Online literature retrieval was conducted using The Cochrane Library (from University, Changsha 410011, Hunan January 1993 to June 2013), EMBASE (from January 1980 to June 2013), MEDLINE (from Janu- Province, China, juli0802@. ary 1963 to June 2013), OVID (from January 1993 to June 2013), Springer (from January 1994 to June 2013) and Chinese Academic Journal Full-text Database (from January 1994 to June 2013). doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.130085 Key words were preterm infants and dexamethasone in English and Chinese. / STUDY SELECTION: Selected studies were randomized controlled trials assessing the effect of intravenous dexamethasone in preterm infants. The quality of the included papers was evaluated Accepted: 2014-01-28 and those without the development of the nervous system and animal experiments were exclud- ed. Quality assessment was performed through bias risk evaluation in accordance with Cochrane Handbook 5.1.0 softw