Antenatal corticosteroid therapy: A meta-analysis of the randomized trials, 1972 to 1994,☆☆

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    Funded in part by Trinity College Dublin, the Coombe Women's Hospital, and the National Institute of Child Health and Development. The Cochrane Collaboration is funded by the United Kingdom Department of Health.

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    Based on an initial study that appeared in the Brith Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 1990;97:11–25 and on an article that appeared in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (US). Report of the Consensus Development Conference on the Effect of Corticosteroids for Fetal Maturation on Perinatal Outcomes; 1994 Feb 28–Mar 2; Bethesda, MD. Bethesda (MD): The Institute; 1994 Nov. p.161–205 (NIH publication; No. 95-3784)

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