Clinical characteristics, frailty and mortality of residents with COVID-19 in nursing homes of a region of Madrid

12/11 Late treatment study

Bielza et al., Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2020.12.003 (Peer Reviewed)
Clinical characteristics, frailty and mortality of residents with COVID-19 in nursing homes of a region of Madrid

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Retrospective 630 elderly patients in Spain showing lower mortality with HCQ treatment, unadjusted relative risk RR 0.78, p = 0.09. HCQ was used more often with patients that were hospitalized (24% versus 3% use in the nursing homes). Median age 87.

Bielza et al., 12/11/2020, retrospective, Spain, Europe, peer-reviewed, median age 87.0, 24 authors.

risk of death, 21.5% lower, RR 0.78, p = 0.09, treatment 33 of 91 (36.3%), control 249 of 539 (46.2%).

This study is excluded in meta analysis: unadjusted results with no group details.

Effect extraction follows pre-specified rules prioritizing more serious outcomes. For an individual study the most serious outcome may have a smaller number of events and lower statistical signficance, however this provides the strongest evidence for the most serious outcomes when combining the results of many trials.

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