Fahreza Akbar Siregar
Introduction & Objective: Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) is one of the top leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. CAP also becomes the sixth most prevalent cause of overall mortality in adults. Corticosteroids are known to be the most potent anti-inflammatory drugs and have physiologic rationale for their use in patients with infection. Its efficacy in the treatment of CAP is still debatable. The objective is study to evaluate the efficacy and clinical outcomes of systemic and inhaled steroid therapy for patients with community-acquired pneumonia.
Method: We used four databases for literature searching process, Pubmed, EBSCO, ProQuest and Science Direct, which selected articles are those therapeutic studies with relevant clinical question and met the inclusion-exclusion criteria???s. Critical appraisal was performed by assessed its validity, importance, and applicability based on Oxford Center of Evidenced-Based Medicine 2011.