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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2016

Debate Regarding Oseltamivir Use for Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza.

Aeron C Hurt, Heath Kelly

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Aeron C Hurt
Heath Kelly

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A debate about the market-leading influenza antiviral medication, oseltamivir, which initially focused on treatment for generally mild illness, has been expanded to question the wisdom of stockpiling for use in future influenza pandemics. Although randomized controlled trial evidence confirms that oseltamivir will reduce symptom duration by 17-25 hours among otherwise healthy adolescents and adults with community-managed disease, no randomized controlled trials have examined the effectiveness of oseltamivir against more serious outcomes. Observational studies, although criticized on methodologic grounds, suggest that oseltamivir given early can reduce the risk for death by half among persons hospitalized with confirmed infection caused by influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 and influenza A(H5N1) viruses. However, available randomized controlled trial data may not be able to capture the effect of oseltamivir use among hospitalized patients with severe disease. We assert that data on outpatients with relatively mild disease should not form the basis for policies on the management of more severe disease.

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Influenza A virusAntiviral AgentsClinical Trials as TopicDisease ManagementHumansInfluenza, HumanOseltamivirPractice Guidelines as TopicSeasonsSeverity of Illness IndexTreatment OutcomeAntiviral AgentsOseltamivirantiviral agentinfluenzaoseltamivirpandemicrespiratory diseasesstockpilesstockpilingtreatmentviruses

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