Methods |
Trial design: RCT with 2 parallel arms, unclear blinding method
Type of publication: trial registry entry with posted results
Setting: outpatient
Recruitment dates: December 2020 to February 2021
Country: Mexico
Language: English
Number of centres: 1
Study purpose (treatment, prevention): treatment
Trial registration number: NCT04673214
Date of registration: 17 December 2020
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Participants |
Number of participants (randomized/analysed): 114/111; unclear if participants were actually randomized
Age (mean): NR
Males, n: overall 53 (47.7%)
Severity of condition according to study definition: patients in a mild COVID‐19 phase
Severity of condition according to WHO scale: presumably 1 to 3
Time from symptom onset to enrolment: NR
Comorbidities: NR
Virus detection performed at baseline (test‐positive at baseline): NR, but RT‐PCR positivity defined as inclusion criterion
Inclusion criteria: eligible for family medicine unit No.20 and family medicine unit No.13 belonging to the Northern District of the Mexican Institute for Social Security; men and women; age > 18 years; compliance with the operational definition COVID‐19 and confirmatory test of PCR positive within the first days of the illness; comorbidities such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, systemic arterial hypertension, overweight, or obesity; agree to sign an informed consent, related to video call: that the family medicine unit No.20 and the family medicine unit No.13 belonging to the Northern District of the Mexican Institute for Social Security have installation of electronic equipment for Internet use
Exclusion criteria: people with severe COVID‐19 (sent immediately to second level of care, hospital); any personal pathological history of haematological diseases; allergy to macrolides (azithromycin) and ivermectin
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Interventions |
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Details of intervention
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Treatment details of control group
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Concomitant therapy
Duration of follow‐up: 14 days
Treatment cross‐overs: none
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Outcomes |
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Notes |
Reason for awaiting classification: study did not pass reseach integrity check, because relevant information to assure trustworthiness is missing. Trialist was contacted for clarification. Only a partial response was received which could not fully clarify the issue up until now.
Date of results first posted: August 2021
Sponsor/funding: Gilberto Cruz Arteaga, Coordinación de Investigación en Salud, Mexico
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