Table 4

Symptom scores for steroid and placebo treatment with the difference (steroid − placebo) and 95% confidence intervals of the difference

	Mean score
Symptom	Steroid	Placebo	Difference (95% CI)	p value
Night wheeze
Days 1–3	0.59	0.65	−0.06 (−0.39 to 0.27)	0.80
Days 4–10	0.22	0.33	−0.11 (−0.32 to 0.10)	0.34
Days 11–144-150	0.19	0.21	−0.02 (−0.21 to 0.17)	0.97
Night cough
Days 1–3	1.20	0.97	0.23 (−0.14 to 0.60)	0.24
Days 4–10	0.61	0.45	0.17 (−0.19 to 0.53)	0.33
Days 11–14	0.39	0.26	0.13 (−0.19 to 0.45)	0.34
Day wheeze
Days 1–3	0.65	0.82	−0.17 (−0.55 to 0.21)	0.41
Days 4–10	0.23	0.32	−0.09 (−0.26 to 0.08)	0.36
Days 11–14	0.21	0.17	0.04 (−0.16 to 0.24)	0.57
Day cough
Days 1–3	1.20	0.97	0.23 (−0.36 to 0.82)	0.42
Days 4–10	0.61	0.45	0.16 (−0.26 to 0.58)	0.43
Days 11–14	0.56	0.26	0.30 (−0.02 to 0.62)	0.06
Activities
Days 1–34-150	0.50	0.69	−0.10 (−0.48 to 0.28)	0.27
Days 4–104-150	0.22	0.21	0.01 (−0.25 to 0.27)	0.96
Days 11–14	0.24	0.06	0.18 (0.07 to 0.29)	0.05

↵4-150 Based on 17 pairs of observations.