Drug treatments for covid-19: living systematic review and network meta-analysis

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the effects of treatments for coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19).

Design

Living systematic review and network meta-analysis.

Data sources

WHO covid-19 database, a comprehensive multilingual source of global covid-19 literature, up to 3 December 2021 and six additional Chinese databases up to 20 February 2021. Studies identified as of 1 December 2021 were included in the analysis.

Study selection

Randomised clinical trials in which people with suspected, probable, or confirmed covid-19 were randomised to drug treatment or to standard care or placebo. Pairs of reviewers independently screened potentially eligible articles.

Methods

After duplicate data abstraction, a bayesian network meta-analysis was conducted. Risk of bias of the inc

SUBMITTER: Siemieniuk RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7390912 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature