Systemic steroid therapy for pneumonic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation: A retrospective cohort study

• Akihiro Shiroshita ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: akihiro.shiroshita@vanderbilt.edu

  Affiliations Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ichinomiyanishi Hospital, Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan, Scientific Research Works Peer Support Group (SRWS-PSG), Osaka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0262-459X

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• Keisuke Anan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Scientific Research Works Peer Support Group (SRWS-PSG), Osaka, Japan, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan

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• Masafumi Takeshita,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ichinomiyanishi Hospital, Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan

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• Yuki Kataoka

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Scientific Research Works Peer Support Group (SRWS-PSG), Osaka, Japan, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyoto Min-Iren Asukai Hospital, Kyoto, Japan, Section of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Community Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine/Public Health, Kyoto, Japan

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