Vitamin D as an adjunct to antibiotics for the treatment of acute childhood pneumonia.
CONCLUSIONS: We are uncertain as to whether vitamin D has an important effect on outcomes because the results were imprecise. No major adverse events were reported. We assessed the quality of the evidence as very low to low. Several trials are ongoing and may provide additional information.
PMID: 30024634 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - Category: General Medicine Authors: Das RR, Singh M, Naik SS Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research
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