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COVID-19 Clinical trials: Quality matters more than quantity
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Bonini S
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2020[Oct]; 75
(10
): 2542-2547
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Despite the ferment aroused in the scientific community by the COVID-19 outbreak
and the over 11,000 papers listed in PubMed, published evidence on safe and
effective drugs has not progressed yet at the same speed of the pandemic.
However, clinical research is rapidly progressing, as shown by the hundreds of
registered clinical trials on candidate drugs for COVID-19. Unfortunately,
information on protocols of individual studies differs from registry to registry.
Furthermore, study designs, criteria for stratification of patients and choice of
outcomes are quite heterogeneous. All this makes data sharing and secondary
analysis difficult. At last, small single centre studies and the use of drugs on
a compassionate basis should be replaced by highly powered, multi-centre,
multi-arm clinical trials, in order to provide the required evidence of safety
and efficacy of novel or repurposed candidate drugs. Hopefully, the efforts of
clinical researchers in the fight against the SARS Cov-2 will result into the
identification of effective treatments. To make this possible, clinical research
should be oriented by guidelines for more harmonized high-quality studies and by
a united commitment of the scientific community to share personal knowledge and
data. Allergists and clinical immunologists should have a leading role in this
unprecedent challenge.
|*Research Design
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|Betacoronavirus/*immunology
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|COVID-19
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|Clinical Trials as Topic/*methods/*standards
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