Efficacy of pharmacological interventions in COVID-19 : A network meta-analysis

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AIMS: To perform network meta-analysis for a head-to-head comparison of various interventions used in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on mortality, clinical recovery, time to clinical improvement and the occurrence of serious adverse events.

METHODS: Systematic search was performed using online databases with suitable MeSH terms including coronavirus, COVID-19, randomized controlled trial, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir/ritonavir, tocilizumab, remdesivir, favipiravir, dexamethasone and interferon-β. Data were independently extracted by 2 study investigators and analysed.

RESULTS: Out of 1225 studies screened, 23 were included for qualitative and quantitative analysis. Among the drugs studied, dexamethasone reduces mortality by 10%, with a relative risk of 0.90 (95% confidence interval [0.82-0.97]) and increases clinical recovery by 6% (relative risk 1.06, 95% confidence interval [1.02-1.10]) compared to standard of care. Similarly, remdesivir administered for 10 days increased clinical recovery by 10%, reduced time to clinical improvement by 4 days and lowered the occurrence of serious adverse events by 27% as compared to standard of care.

CONCLUSION: In comparison to standard of care, dexamethasone was found to increase clinical recovery and lower mortality; remdesivir was significantly associated with a lower risk of mortality as compared to tocilizumab and higher clinical recovery and shorter time to clinical improvement as compared to hydroxychloroquine and tocilizumab; remdesivir followed by tocilizumab were found to have lesser occurrence of serious adverse events in patients with moderate to severe COVID-19.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:88

Enthalten in:

British journal of clinical pharmacology - 88(2022), 9 vom: 07. Sept., Seite 4080-4091

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Selvarajan, Sandhiya [VerfasserIn]
Anandaradje, Annuja [VerfasserIn]
Shivabasappa, Santhosh [VerfasserIn]
Melepurakkal Sadanandan, Deepthy [VerfasserIn]
Nair, N Sreekumaran [VerfasserIn]
George, Melvin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

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Antiviral Agents
Clinical recovery
Dexamethasone
Hydroxychloroquine
Journal Article
Lopinavir
Meta-Analysis
Mortality
Remdesivir
Systematic Review

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Date Completed 19.08.2022

Date Revised 07.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/bcp.15338

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM338870520