Guideline

Corticosteroids for COVID-19: living guidance, 2 September 2020.

Year of Publication

2020

Issuing Institution

World Health Organization

Links

Recommendations

2 included recommendations

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends systemic corticosteroids rather than no corticosteroids for patients with severe and critical COVID-19 infection.

Status

Maintained

Recommended in favor

Strong

Certainty of evidence

Moderate

The World Health Organization (WHO) suggests not to use corticosteroids for patients with non-severe COVID-19 infection.

Status

Maintained

Recommended against

Conditional

Certainty of evidence

Low