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ArticlemedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2020

Repurposing Existing Medications for Coronavirus Disease 2019: Protocol for a Rapid and Living Systematic Review.

Benjamin P Geisler, Lara Zahabi, Adam E Lang, Naomi Eastwood, Elaine Tennant, Ljiljana Lukic, Elad Sharon, Hai-Hua Chuang, Chang-Berm Kang, Knakita Clayton-Johnson and 10 more

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Article in medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Benjamin P GeislerMassachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Lara ZahabiMcGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Adam E LangMcDonald Army Health Center, Fort Eustis, VA, USA.
Naomi EastwoodWirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Wirral, UK.
Elaine TennantRoyal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Ljiljana LukicUniversity Hospital for Infectious Disease Zagreb "Dr. Fran Mihaljevic", Zagreb, Croatia.
Elad SharonNational Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Hai-Hua ChuangChang Gung Memorial Hospital/Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Chang-Berm KangProof Biotechnologies, Inc., Columbia, SC, USA.
Knakita Clayton-JohnsonPortmore Hospital Complex, Portmore, Jamaica.
Ahmed AljaberiBrigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Haining YuUniversity of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Chinh BuiMassachusetts Institute for Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Tuan Le MauInstitute of High Performance Computing, Singapore.
Wen-Cheng LiChang Gung Memorial Hospital/Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Debbie TeodorescuMassachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Ludwig Christian HinskeLudwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
Dennis L SunCalifornia Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA.
Farrin A ManianMassachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Adam G DunnUniversity of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCoronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has no known specific treatments. However, there might be

methodsThis systematic review will include DISCUSSION: The challenge posed by COVID-19 requires not just a rapid review of drugs that can be repurposed but also a sustained effort to integrate new evidence into a living systematic review. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: PROSPERO 2020 CRD42020175648.

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COVID-19MERS-CoVMiddle East Respiratory Syndrome CoronavirusrepurposedrepurposingSARSSARS-CoV2Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

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PMID32511471
PMCPMC7265692

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