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ReviewClinical pharmacology and therapeutics2020

Challenges in Drug Development Posed by the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Opportunity for Clinical Pharmacology.

Karthik Venkatakrishnan, Oezkan Yalkinoglu, Jennifer Q Dong, Lisa J Benincosa

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Review in Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Karthik VenkatakrishnanEMD Serono Research & Development Institute, Inc., Billerica, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4039-9813
Oezkan YalkinogluMerck Healthcare KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.
Jennifer Q DongEMD Serono Research & Development Institute, Inc., Billerica, Massachusetts, USA.
Lisa J BenincosaEMD Serono Research & Development Institute, Inc., Billerica, Massachusetts, USA.
Merck (Germany) · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The unprecedented challenges posed by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic highlight the urgency for applying clinical pharmacology and model-informed drug development in (i) dosage optimization for COVID-19 therapies, (ii) approaching therapeutic dilemmas in clinical trial settings, and (iii) maximizing value of information from impacted non-COVID-19 trials. More than ever, we have a responsibility for adaptive evidence synthesis with a Totality of Evidence mindset in this race against time across biomedical research, clinical practice, drug development, and regulation.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusClinical Trials as TopicCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Drug DevelopmentHumansPandemicsPharmacology, ClinicalPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32356569
PMCPMC7267567
OpenAlexW3023201079

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