Corrigendum to “Methylprednisolone pulse therapy for critically ill patients with COVID-19: a cohort study”

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Acute Crit Care. 2023;38(2):249-249

Publication date (electronic) : 2023 May 25

doi : https://doi.org/10.4266/acc.2022.00941.e1

Keum-Ju Choi, Soo Kyun Jung, Kyung Chan Kim, Eun Jin Kim

Department of Internal Medicine, Daegu Catholic University Medical Center, Daegu, Korea

Corresponding author Eun Jin Kim Department of Internal Medicine, Daegu Catholic University Medical Center, 33 Duryugongwon-ro 17-gil, Nam-gu, Daegu 42472, Korea Tel: +82-53-650-4274 Fax: +82-53-650-4942 Email: ejkim77@cu.ac.kr

Acute and Critical Care 2023;38:57-67

https://doi.org/10.4266/acc.2022.00941

In the article entitled “Methylprednisolone pulse therapy for critically ill patients with COVID-19: a cohort study,” some data of Table 3 was incorrectly presented. The correct Table 3 is as follows.

Table 3.

Treatment and prognosis in critical or severe COVID-19 cases with control and pulse steroid groups

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Table 3.

Treatment and prognosis in critical or severe COVID-19 cases with control and pulse steroid groups

Variable	Control steroid (n=14)	Pulse steroid (n=30)	Total (n=44)	P-value
High flow nasal cannula oxygen	14 (100)	29 (96.7)	43 (97.7)	0.490
Mechanical ventilation	4 (28.6)	6 (20.0)	10 (22.7)	0.527
Duration of mechanical ventilation (day)	18 (11–33)	8 (4–10)	10 (6–8)	0.063
Other treatment^a)	1 (7.1)	3 (10.0)	4 (9.1)	0.759
Prone position^b)	7 (50.0)	21 (70.0)	28 (63.6)	0.199
In-hospital mortality	6 (42.9)	7 (23.3)	13 (29.5)	0.186
In-hospital mortality among moderate and mild ARDS groups	4 (44.4)	2 (13.3)	6 (25.0)	0.088
In-hospital mortality among severe ARDS group	2 (40.0)	5 (33.3)	7 (35.0)	0.933
28-Day mortality	5 (35.7)	7 (23.3)	12 (27.3)	0.390
Cause of death				0.255
Respiratory failure	4 (28.6)	5 (16.7)	9 (20.5)
Hepatic failure	2 (14.3)	0	2 (4.5)
Arrhythmia	0	1 (3.3)	1 (2.3)
Renal failure	0	1 (3.3)	1 (2.3)
Length of hospital stay (day)	14 (12–24)	11 (9–16)	11 (8–17)	0.039^d)
Complication after steroid use	1 (7.1)	3 (9.9)	4 (9.0)	0.295
Uncontrolled hyperglycemia	0	2 (6.7)	2 (4.8)
Others^c)	1 (7.1)	1 (3.3)	2 (4.8)

Values are presented as number (%) or median (interquartile range).

COVID-19: coronavirus disease 2019; ARDS: acute respiratory distress syndrome.

^a)

Other treatment includes renal replacement therapy or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation;

^b)

Awake prone positioning;

^c)

One gastrointestinal bleeding case in control steroid group and 1 candidemia case in pulse steroid group;

^d)

Mann-Whitney U-test for comparisons between the control and pulse steroid groups.