Comparison of Systemic Corticosteroid Therapy Practices Between Pediatric and Adult Rheumatologists: A Multicenter Survey Study
Övgü Özenli Yağcı, Çisem Yıldız, Deniz Gezgin Yıldırım, Emre Bilgin, Sevcan A. Bakkaloğlu · 2026
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Övgü Özenli Yağcı and co-authors survey, in 2026, how child and adult rheumatism doctors in Türkiye differ in using steroid medicines. Sixty paediatric and forty adult doctors answered an online questionnaire about drug choice, dosing, tapering, safety monitoring, and vaccine habits for whole-body steroids in rheumatic disease.
Preferences split by specialty: child specialists favoured prednisolone and weight-based dosing, adult specialists nearly all chose methylprednisolone and fixed doses. Child doctors used longer high-dose pulse courses. Adult doctors reported longer bridging and maintenance phases. Pre-treatment checks differed too, with blood smears favoured by one side and hepatitis screening by the other, and eye examinations and several vaccine checks were requested more by paediatricians. Delirium was reported far more often by adult specialists. Age-specific standard protocols are the authors' recommendation.
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| CREATOR | Övgü Özenli Yağcı, Çisem Yıldız, Deniz Gezgin Yıldırım, Emre Bilgin, Sevcan A. Bakkaloğlu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46640 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |