TY - JOUR T1 - Review: daily maintenance inhaled corticosteroidsare not effective for children with episodic viral wheeze JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 113 LP - 113 DO - 10.1136/ebn.3.4.113 VL - 3 IS - 4 A2 - , Y1 - 2000/10/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/3/4/113.abstract N2 - McKean M, Ducharme F. Inhaled steroids for episodic viral wheeze of childhood. (Cochrane Review, latest version 26 Oct 1999). In: Cochrane Library. Oxford: Update Software. QUESTION: Are inhaled corticosteroids, given episodically or daily, effective for treatment of children with viral episodic wheeze? Published and unpublished randomised controlled trials were identified in April 1999 by searching the Cochrane Airways Group database (which includes studies identified from searches of Medline, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, CINAHL, and hand searches of 16 core respiratory journals and the proceedings of 3 respiratory societies) using combinations of the terms asthma, wheez* (truncated), budesonide, pulmicort, beclomethasone, becotide, fluticasone, flixotide, triamcinolone, steroid, corticosteroid, glucocorticoid, inhaled, aerosolised, nebulised, child, infan*, pediatric, paediatric, and adolescen*; bibliographies of retrieved trials; and contacting authors.Studies were included if they involved children aged 0–17 years with viral episodic wheeze (defined as ≥2 episodes … ER -