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ArticlePloS one2021

Disease progression of 213 patients hospitalized with Covid-19 in the Czech Republic in March-October 2020: An exploratory analysis.

Martin Modrák, Paul-Christian Bürkner, Tomáš Sieger, Tomáš Slisz, Martina Vašáková, Grigorij Mesežnikov, Luis Fernando Casas-Mendez, Jaromír Vajter, Jan Táborský, Viktor Kubricht and 17 more

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Article in PloS one, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

27 authors.

Martin ModrákBioinformatics Core Facility, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-8886-7797
Paul-Christian BürknerCluster of Excellence SimTech, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Deutschland, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5765-8995
Tomáš SiegerDept. of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0003-4960-1934
Tomáš SliszDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
Martina VašákováDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
Grigorij MesežnikovMotol University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic.
Luis Fernando Casas-MendezMotol University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic.
Jaromír VajterMotol University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0001-6277-2151
Jan TáborskýAGEL Hospital Nový Jičín, Nový Jičín, Czech Republic.
Viktor KubrichtKralovské Vinohrady University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic.
Daniel SukGeneral University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
Jan HorejsekGeneral University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
Martin JedličkaMilitary Hospital Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
Adriana MifkováMilitary Hospital Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
Adam JarošNa Homolce Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic.
Miroslav KubiskaDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Travel Medicine, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, University Hospital in Pilsen, Pilsen, Czech Republic.
Jana VáchalováDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Travel Medicine, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, University Hospital in Pilsen, Pilsen, Czech Republic.
Robin ŠínDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Travel Medicine, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, University Hospital in Pilsen, Pilsen, Czech Republic.
Markéta VeverkováHořovice Hospital, Hořovice, Czech Republic.
Zbyšek PospíšilTřebíč Hospital, Třebíč, Czech Republic.
Julie Vohryzková2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
Rebeka Pokrievková3rd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
Kristián Hrušák2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
Kristína Christozova2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
Vianey Leos-BarajasDepartment of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-8016-773X
Karel FišerDepartment of Bioinformatics, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
Tomáš HyánekNa Homolce Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We collected a multi-centric retrospective dataset of patients (N = 213) who were admitted to ten hospitals in Czech Republic and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 during the early phases of the pandemic in March-October 2020. The dataset contains baseline patient characteristics, breathing support required, pharmacological treatment received and multiple markers on daily resolution. Patients in the dataset were treated with hydroxychloroquine (N = 108), azithromycin (N = 72), favipiravir (N = 9), convalescent plasma (N = 7), dexamethasone (N = 4) and remdesivir (N = 3), often in combination. To explore association between treatments and patient outcomes we performed multiverse analysis, observing how the conclusions change between defensible choices of statistical model, predictors included in the model and other analytical degrees of freedom. Weak evidence to constrain the potential efficacy of azithromycin and favipiravir can be extracted from the data. Additionally, we performed external validation of several proposed prognostic models for Covid-19 severity showing that they mostly perform unsatisfactorily on our dataset.

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COVID-19COVID-19 Drug TreatmentDisease ProgressionSARS-CoV-2Adenosine MonophosphateAdultAgedAlanineAmidesAntiviral AgentsAzithromycinCzech RepublicDexamethasoneFemaleHospitalizationHumansAdenosine MonophosphateAlanineAmidesAntiviral AgentsAzithromycinDexamethasoneHydroxychloroquineremdesivir

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PMID34613965
PMCPMC8494367

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