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We compared 30-day and 1-year mortality rate, change in the respiratory item of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score(SOFA-<jats:sub>resp<\/jats:sub> worsening), use of tracheal intubation between day-1 and day-5 of anti-pneumocystis therapy and occurrence of coinfections between patients with EACST and those with no or late corticosteroid therapy, using an inverse probability weighting propensity score-based (IPW) analysis.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec id=\"sec003\">\n<jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>133 non-HIV oncology or haematology PJP patients were included (EACST n = 58, others n = 75). The main underlying conditions were haematological malignancies (n = 107, 80,5%), solid tumour (n = 27, 20,3%) and allogeneic stem cell transplantation (n = 17, 12,8%). Overall 30-day and 1-year mortality rate was 24,1% and 56,4%, respectively. IPW analysis found no difference on 30-day (HR = 1.45, 95% CI [0.7\u20133.04], p = 0.321) and 1-year (HR = 1.25, CI 95% [0.75\u20132.09], p = 0.39) mortality rate between groups.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec id=\"sec004\">\n<jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>No difference in SOFA-<jats:sub>resp<\/jats:sub> worsening, tracheal intubation and coinfections was found between groups. 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