Effect of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin Combination Use in COVID-19 Patients - An Umbrella Review

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Background: Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin combination was used rampantly in management of COVID-19 patients in different countries. Present review was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin combination compared to the control (standard care) and any adverse effect following this combination use in COVID-19 patients if any.

Material and Methods: We included all the systematic review with or without meta-analysis reporting the effect of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and Azithromycin (AZM) combination use in COVID-19 patient using three databases namely PubMed, medline, CINHAL, Web of Science from July 2020 till Jan 2022.

Results: The systematic search strategy has identified 104 studies in total, after removal of duplicates only 4 systematic reviews were included in the qualitative synthesis. The various tools for assessing and reporting the data in the reviews were PRISMA, ROBINS-I, Robs2, AMSTAR, MASTER checklists. Mortality among the hydroxychloroquine with azithromycin combination group was significantly higher than among the Standard Care group. The duration of hospital stay in days was shorter in the Standard Care group in comparison with the hydroxychloroquine group or the hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin combination group. Of the 4 systematic reviews included, 3 had low risk of bias and one had unclear risk of bias using the ROBIS tool. Chloroquine or Hydroxychloroquine combination did not shorten the duration of hospital stay.

Conclusion: Rampant use of Chloroquine or Hydroxychloroquine alone or with Azithromycin combination caused adverse effects like QT prolongation. Finally, there is no evidence to support use of either Hydroxychloroquine with or without Azithromycin, for the treatment of COVID-19.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:49

Enthalten in:

Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine - 49(2024), 1 vom: 26. Jan., Seite 22-27

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Nag, Kaushik [VerfasserIn]
Tripura, Kaushik [VerfasserIn]
Datta, Anjan [VerfasserIn]
Karmakar, Nabarun [VerfasserIn]
Singh, Manvi [VerfasserIn]
Singh, Meenu [VerfasserIn]
Singal, Kusum [VerfasserIn]
Pradhan, Pranita [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Azithromycin
COVID-19
Hydroxychloroquine
Journal Article
PRISMA
Patients
Review
Umbrella review

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Date Revised 02.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_983_22

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369158504