Pattern of medication utilization in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in three District Headquarters Hospitals in the Punjab province of Pakistan
et al., Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, doi:10.1016/j.rcsop.2021.100101
, Pattern of medication utilization in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in three District Headquarters.., Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, doi:10.1016/j.rcsop.2021.100101
Retrospective 444 hospitalized patients in Pakistan, showing lower mortality with remdesivir treatment in unadjusted results, not reaching statistical significance.[Gérard, Wu, Zhou] show significantly increased risk of acute kidney injury with remdesivir.
This study is excluded in the after exclusion results of meta
analysis:
unadjusted results with no group details.
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Gérard et al., Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, doi:10.1002/cpt.2145,
Remdesivir and Acute Renal Failure: A Potential Safety Signal From Disproportionality Analysis of the WHO Safety Database,
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/cpt.2145.
This study includes aspirin, remdesivir, and ivermectin.
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risk of death, 32.7% lower, RR 0.67, p = 0.21, treatment 16 of 200 (8.0%), control 29 of 244 (11.9%), NNT 26.
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Mustafa et al., 29 Dec 2021, retrospective, Pakistan, peer-reviewed, 7 authors.
Pattern of medication utilization in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in three District Headquarters Hospitals in the Punjab province of Pakistan
Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, doi:10.1016/j.rcsop.2021.100101
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to 2.5 times the upper limit of normal
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