Development and Validation of a Treatment Benefit Index to Identify Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 Who May Benefit From Convalescent Plasma

Importance: Identifying which patients with COVID-19 are likely to benefit from COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) treatment may have a large public health impact.

Objective: To develop an index for predicting the expected relative treatment benefit from CCP compared with treatment without CCP for patients hospitalized for COVID-19 using patients' baseline characteristics.

Design, Setting, and Participants: This prognostic study used data from the COMPILE study, ie, a meta-analysis of pooled individual patient data from 8 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) evaluating CCP vs control in adults hospitalized for COVID-19 who were not receiving mechanical ventilation at randomization. A combination of baseline characteristics, termed the treatment benefit index (TBI), was developed based on 2287 patients in COMPILE using a proportional odds model, with baseline characteristics selected via cross-validation. The TBI was externally validated on 4 external data sets: the Expanded Access Program (1896 participants), a study conducted under Emergency Use Authorization (210 participants), and 2 RCTs (with 80 and 309 participants).

Exposure: Receipt of CCP.

Main Outcomes and Measures: World Health Organization (WHO) 11-point ordinal COVID-19 clinical status scale and 2 derivatives of it (ie, WHO score of 7-10, indicating mechanical ventilation to death, and WHO score of 10, indicating death) at day 14 and day 28 after randomization. Day 14 WHO 11-point ordinal scale was used as the primary outcome to develop the TBI.

Results: A total of 2287 patients were included in the derivation cohort, with a mean (SD) age of 60.3 (15.2) years and 815 (35.6%) women. The TBI provided a continuous gradation of benefit, and, for clinical utility, it was operationalized into groups of expected large clinical benefit (B1; 629 participants in the derivation cohort [27.5%]), moderate benefit (B2; 953 [41.7%]), and potential harm or no benefit (B3; 705 [30.8%]). Patients with preexisting conditions (diabetes, cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases), with blood type A or AB, and at an early COVID-19 stage (low baseline WHO scores) were expected to benefit most, while those without preexisting conditions and at more advanced stages of COVID-19 could potentially be harmed. In the derivation cohort, odds ratios for worse outcome, where smaller odds ratios indicate larger benefit from CCP, were 0.69 (95% credible interval [CrI], 0.48-1.06) for B1, 0.82 (95% CrI, 0.61-1.11) for B2, and 1.58 (95% CrI, 1.14-2.17) for B3. Testing on 4 external datasets supported the validation of the derived TBIs.

Conclusions and Relevance: The findings of this study suggest that the CCP TBI is a simple tool that can quantify the relative benefit from CCP treatment for an individual patient hospitalized with COVID-19 that can be used to guide treatment recommendations. The TBI precision medicine approach could be especially helpful in a pandemic.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:5

Enthalten in:

JAMA network open - 5(2022), 1 vom: 04. Jan., Seite e2147375

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Park, Hyung [VerfasserIn]
Tarpey, Thaddeus [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Mengling [VerfasserIn]
Goldfeld, Keith [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Yinxiang [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Danni [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yi [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jinchun [VerfasserIn]
Ganguly, Dipyaman [VerfasserIn]
Ray, Yogiraj [VerfasserIn]
Paul, Shekhar Ranjan [VerfasserIn]
Bhattacharya, Prasun [VerfasserIn]
Belov, Artur [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Yin [VerfasserIn]
Villa, Carlos [VerfasserIn]
Forshee, Richard [VerfasserIn]
Verdun, Nicole C [VerfasserIn]
Yoon, Hyun Ah [VerfasserIn]
Agarwal, Anup [VerfasserIn]
Simonovich, Ventura Alejandro [VerfasserIn]
Scibona, Paula [VerfasserIn]
Burgos Pratx, Leandro [VerfasserIn]
Belloso, Waldo [VerfasserIn]
Avendaño-Solá, Cristina [VerfasserIn]
Bar, Katharine J [VerfasserIn]
Duarte, Rafael F [VerfasserIn]
Hsue, Priscilla Y [VerfasserIn]
Luetkemeyer, Anne F [VerfasserIn]
Meyfroidt, Geert [VerfasserIn]
Nicola, André M [VerfasserIn]
Mukherjee, Aparna [VerfasserIn]
Ortigoza, Mila B [VerfasserIn]
Pirofski, Liise-Anne [VerfasserIn]
Rijnders, Bart J A [VerfasserIn]
Troxel, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Antman, Elliott M [VerfasserIn]
Petkova, Eva [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 03.02.2022

Date Revised 17.09.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.47375

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM33611186X