# Corticosteroid Treatment for Community-Acquired Pneumonia - The STEP Trial

> **NCT00973154** · PHASE3 · COMPLETED · sponsor: **University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland** · enrollment: 800 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Community-acquired Pneumonia

## Interventions

- **DRUG:** Prednisone

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00973154
- **Lead sponsor:** University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** PHASE3
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2009-12
- **Primary completion:** 2014-07
- **Final completion:** 2014-12
- **Target enrollment:** 800 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2015-04-21

## Collaborators

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## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00973154

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00973154, "Corticosteroid Treatment for Community-Acquired Pneumonia - The STEP Trial". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-28 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00973154. Licensed CC0.

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