Duration and dosing of systemic corticosteroids for acute exacerbation of COPD, protocol for a systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized trials and cohort studies

• Raymond Yin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Yiyang Wang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Yue Ying,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Mutian Ding,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Faculty of Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Yunqing Ouyang,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Faculty of Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Emily Yuan,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Faculty of Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Daniel Ye,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Shirley Yuan,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Guanying Li,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5009-8402

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• Winston Hou

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: houwenteng@gmail.com

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1164-1909

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