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0 0.5 1 1.5 2+ Mortality 15% Improvement Relative Risk Hospitalization time -49% c19hcq.org Vernaz et al. HCQ for COVID-19 LATE TREATMENT Is late treatment with HCQ beneficial for COVID-19? PSM retrospective 198 patients in Switzerland Longer hospitalization with HCQ (p=0.002) Vernaz et al., Swiss Medical Weekly, doi:10.4414/smw.2020.20446 Favors HCQ Favors control

Early experimental COVID-19 therapies: associations with length of hospital stay, mortality and related costs

Vernaz et al., Swiss Medical Weekly, doi:10.4414/smw.2020.20446
Vernaz et al., Early experimental COVID-19 therapies: associations with length of hospital stay, mortality and related costs, Swiss Medical Weekly, doi:10.4414/smw.2020.20446
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Retrospective 840 hospitalized patients in Switzerland showing non-statistically significant lower mortality with HCQ but significantly longer hospitalization times. Confounding by indication is likely. PSM fails to adjust for severity with a 16% higher mNEWS score for HCQ vs. SOC in the matched cohort.
Time varying confounding is likely. HCQ became controversial and was suspended towards the end of the period studied, therefore HCQ use was likely more frequent toward the beginning of the study period, a time when overall treatment protocols were significantly worse.
Authors note: "overall, there was an indication bias, with the reason of prescription being associated with the outcome of interest. Indeed, patients with more severe COVID-19 were more likely to receive experimental therapies."
Although the 15% lower mortality is not statistically significant, it is consistent with the significant 24% lower mortality [19‑28%] from meta analysis of the 237 mortality results to date. This study is excluded in the after exclusion results of meta analysis: substantial confounding by time likely due to declining usage over the early stages of the pandemic when overall treatment protocols improved dramatically; substantial unadjusted confounding by indication likely.
risk of death, 15.3% lower, RR 0.85, p = 0.71, treatment 12 of 93 (12.9%), control 16 of 105 (15.2%), NNT 43, HCQ vs. SOC, PSM.
hospitalization time, 49.0% higher, relative time 1.49, p = 0.002, treatment 93, control 105, HCQ vs. SOC, PSM.
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Vernaz et al., 31 Dec 2020, retrospective, propensity score matching, Switzerland, peer-reviewed, 15 authors.
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