On 2014 Mar 26, Antonio Martinez-Gimeno commented:

The results of this excellent RCT on the effect of hypertonic saline on infants with acute bronchiolitis can be easily added to current metaanalysis on the issue (Zhang L, 2013 and Chen YJ, 2014) Just download Review Manager 5.2, install it and introduce the previous data and the data from this study (along with the data from two other recently published RCT, Nenna R, 2014 and Sharma BS, 2013) and you will obtain an excellent update of each meta-analysis.

Unfortunately, the authors of this study failed to include the actual numbers of hospital length of stay (group means and SD) in table 5 and that precludes its use in the meta-analysis update.

It would be great if the authors could publicly provide these figures.

On 2014 Mar 26, Antonio Martinez-Gimeno commented:

The results of this excellent RCT on the effect of hypertonic saline on infants with acute bronchiolitis can be easily added to current metaanalysis on the issue (Zhang L, 2013 and Chen YJ, 2014) Just download Review Manager 5.2, install it and introduce the previous data and the data from this study (along with the data from two other recently published RCT, Nenna R, 2014 and Sharma BS, 2013) and you will obtain an excellent update of each meta-analysis.

Unfortunately, the authors of this study failed to include the actual numbers of hospital length of stay (group means and SD) in table 5 and that precludes its use in the meta-analysis update.

It would be great if the authors could publicly provide these figures.