Sammartino, 328 patient HCQ late treatment PSM study: 240% higher mortality [p=0.002] https://c19p.org/sammartino
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Predictors for inpatient mortality during the first wave of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: A retrospective analysis
et al., PLOS One, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0251262
Retrospective 1,108 hospitalized patients in New York showing significantly higher mortality with HCQ treatment.Time based confounding is very likely because HCQ became increasingly controversial and less used over the time covered (Mar - Jun 2020), while overall treatment protocols during this period improved dramatically, i.e., more control patients likely come later in the period when treatment protocols were greatly improved. Authors note that for every week or month later that a person was admitted, their risk of death dropped by 16% and 49%, respectively, yet they do not consider time based confounding.
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risk of death, 240.0% higher, OR 3.40, p = 0.002, treatment 137, control 191, PSM, model 1a, RR approximated with OR.
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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.
Sammartino et al., 5/10/2021, retrospective, propensity score matching, USA, North America, peer-reviewed, 7 authors.
Late treatment
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