Remdesivir and dexamethasone as tools to relieve hospital care systems stressed by COVID-19 : A modelling study on bed resources and budget impact

Remdesivir and dexamethasone are the only drugs providing reductions in the lengths of hospital stays for COVID-19 patients. We assessed the impacts of remdesivir on hospital-bed resources and budgets affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. A stochastic agent-based model was combined with epidemiological data available on the COVID-19 outbreak in France and data from two randomized control trials. Strategies involving treating with remdesivir only patients with low-flow oxygen and patients with low-flow and high-flow oxygen were examined. Treating all eligible low-flow oxygen patients during the entirety of the second wave would have decreased hospital-bed occupancy in conventional wards by 4% [2%; 7%] and intensive care unit (ICU)-bed occupancy by 9% [6%; 13%]. Extending remdesivir use to high-flow-oxygen patients would have amplified reductions in ICU-bed occupancy by up to 14% [18%; 11%]. A minimum remdesivir uptake of 20% was required to observe decreases in bed occupancy. Dexamethasone had effects of similar amplitude. Depending on the treatment strategy, using remdesivir would, in most cases, generate savings (up to 722€) or at least be cost neutral (an extra cost of 34€). Treating eligible patients could significantly limit the saturation of hospital capacities, particularly in ICUs. The generated savings would exceed the costs of medications.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

PloS one - 17(2022), 1 vom: 20., Seite e0262462

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Béraud, Guillaume [VerfasserIn]
Timsit, Jean-François [VerfasserIn]
Leleu, Henri [VerfasserIn]

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Adenosine Monophosphate
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Antiviral Agents
Dexamethasone
Journal Article
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Remdesivir
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 25.01.2022

Date Revised 05.04.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1371/journal.pone.0262462

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM335556558