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Use of remdesivir in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Remdesivir Treatment Lacks the Effect on Mortality Reduction in Hospitalized Adult COVID-19 Patients Who Required High-Flow Supplemental Oxygen or Invasive Mechanical Ventilation.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Pooled it
- Remdesivir for the treatment of COVID-19.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Unraveling relevant cross-waves pattern drifts in patient-hospital risk factors among hospitalized COVID-19 patients using explainable machine learning methods.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Within-host dynamics of antiviral treatment with remdesivir for SARS-CoV-2 infection.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
- Real-world use of remdesivir for the treatment of patients admitted to Italian hospitals with COVID-19: the nationwide retrospective FADOI-RECOVER study.BMC infectious diseases · 2023Observational
- Bradycardia and Outcomes in COVID-19 Patients on Remdesivir: A Multicenter Retrospective Study.Cardiology research · 2023Article
- Long-Term Vaccination and Treatment Strategies for COVID-19 Disease and Future Coronavirus Pandemics.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023Review
- Identification of Polyphenol Derivatives as Novel SARS-CoV-2 and DENV Non-Nucleoside RdRp Inhibitors.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Is It Time to Revisit Remdesivir Use for Severe COVID-19?Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveStudies in the literature regarding the use of remdesivir to treat COVID-19 patients have shown conflicting results. This study sought to answer questions related to the use of remdesivir for the treatment of patients hospitalized with moderate to severe COVID-19.
methodsThis was a systematic review and meta-analysis including phase 3 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) and observational cohort studies selected from various databases, comparing patients hospitalized with moderate to severe COVID-19 receiving remdesivir and controls.
resultsA total of 207 studies were retrieved, 9 of which met the eligibility criteria and were included in the study. The meta-analysis using RCTs alone showed no statistically significant differences regarding mortality or use of mechanical ventilation/extracorporeal membrane oxygenation between remdesivir and control groups, and the quality of evidence was moderate and low, respectively. The use of remdesivir increased the recovery rate by 6% (95% CI, 3-9); p = 0.004) and the clinical improvement rate by 7% (95% CI, 1-14); p = 0.02). Additionally, no significant differences in mortality were found between remdesivir and control groups when the meta-analysis used observational cohort studies alone (risk difference = -0.01 (95% CI, -0.02 to 0.01; p = 0.32), the quality of evidence being moderate, and the risk of adverse events was 4% ([95% CI, -0.08 to 0.01]; p = 0.09).
conclusionsThe use of remdesivir for the treatment of patients with moderate to severe COVID-19 had no significant impact on clinically important outcomes.
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