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ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Antiviral Used among Non-Severe COVID-19 Cases in Relation to Time till Viral Clearance: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Wael Hafez, Husam Saleh, Ziad Al Baha, Mishal Tariq, Samah Hamdan, Shougyat Ahmed

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Article in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 37% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. COVID-19 patient characteristics and time to viral clearance: A retrospective observational study in a multiethnic population (United Arab Emirates).Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Wael HafezNMC Royal Hospital, 16th Street, Khalifa City, Abu Dhabi P.O. BOX 35233, United Arab Emirates.
Husam SalehNMC Royal Hospital, 16th Street, Khalifa City, Abu Dhabi P.O. BOX 35233, United Arab Emirates.
Ziad Al BahaNMC Royal Hospital, 16th Street, Khalifa City, Abu Dhabi P.O. BOX 35233, United Arab Emirates.ORCID 0000-0002-4220-3266
Mishal TariqNMC Royal Hospital, 16th Street, Khalifa City, Abu Dhabi P.O. BOX 35233, United Arab Emirates.
Samah HamdanNMC Royal Hospital, 16th Street, Khalifa City, Abu Dhabi P.O. BOX 35233, United Arab Emirates.
Shougyat AhmedNMC Royal Hospital, 16th Street, Khalifa City, Abu Dhabi P.O. BOX 35233, United Arab Emirates.
Shaikh Khalifa Medical City · AE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

(1) Background: The WHO identified COVID-19 as a fast-growing epidemic worldwide. A few antivirals have shown promising effectiveness in treating COVID-19. This study aimed to assess the correlation between antiviral drugs and the time until viral clearance of SARS-CoV-2. (2) Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study that included 1731 non-severe COVID-19 patients treated in NMC Royal Hospital, UAE. (3) Results: A total of 1446 patients received symptomatic treatment only (mean age of 35.6 ± 9.0 years). The analyzed antiviral treatment protocols were azithromycin, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir/ritonavir, and favipiravir. The produced Kaplan-Meier plots showed no significant differences in the time until viral clearance among the compared protocols, which showed overlapping confidence intervals, which were determined by performing the log-rank and adjusted pairwise log-rank tests (

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antiviral drugsCOVID-19drug repurposingSARS-CoV-2symptomatic treatmentviral clearance

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PMID35453248
PMCPMC9030807
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