Supplemental Online Content for manuscript: "Lessons in Bias: What Topical Steroid Withdrawal Studies Get Wrong"

<p dir="ltr">Updated 8 Sept 2026 - The latest version of Table 1 consists of expanded data extraction and an updated search to encompass TSW studies to 8 Sept 2026,</p><p dir="ltr">These two documents are supplementary files for the manuscript titled <i>"Lessons in Bias: What Topical Steroid Withdrawal Studies Get Wrong."</i></p><p dir="ltr"><br>The first document (Word format) contains the OVID search string, which mirrors that of the systematic review by Hajar T et al. (<i>J Am Acad Dermatol.</i> 2015;72(3):541–549.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2014.11.024), updated to reflect the literature up to 2025.</p><p dir="ltr"><br>The second document (Excel spreadsheet) lists all original investigations published to date.

Systematic reviews and narrative reviews were excluded because they review existing case reports/series and hence risk duplicating results. Surveys are omitted because they are descriptive in nature and are not included within the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) levels of evidence, which prioritize analytical over descriptive tools.</p>