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. 2024 Feb 5;2024(2):CD015219. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD015219.pub2

NCT04600999.

Study name Clinical trial of favipiravir treatment of patients with COVID‐19
Methods Open‐label RCT
Participants SARS‐CoV‐2 infected patients (COVID‐19 patients) with mild pneumonia
Interventions
  • Experimental: favipiravir from Day 1 plus supportive care (symptomatic therapy): a regimen of 3600 mg (1800 mg twice a day orally) loading dose on Day 1 followed by 1600 mg maintenance dose (800 mg twice a day orally) on Day 2 to Day 14

  • Control: supportive care

Outcomes Primary
  • Time to improvement in body temperature

  • Time to improvement in SpO2

  • Time to imrovement in chest imaging findings

  • Time to imrovement in negative SARS Co‐V‐2


Secondary
  • Change in patient status on 5‐point scale

  • Changes in the level of SARS‐CoV‐2 viral genome

  • SARS‐CoV‐2 virus genome clearance rate

  • Duration of pyrexia

  • Change in clinical symptoms

  • Change in NEWS score

  • Change in chest imaging findings on on Days 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28

  • Percentage of participants requiring adjuvant oxygen therapy

  • Adjuvant oxygen therapy average duration

  • Percentage of participants requiring mechanical ventilation therapy

Starting date 07 October 2020
Contact information István Várkonyi
Institute of Infectology University of Debrecen
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