chloroquine and derivatives for COVID-19: living meta-analysis of clinical studies

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Study	Ref.	Design	studied treatment	control treatment	patients	study risk of bias	sample sizes	Results
COVID 19 hospitalized meta-analysis
Abd-Elsalam NCT04353336		RCT	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID 19 hospitalized	some concern	97/97	inconclusive
ARCHAIC -hydroxychloroquine NL8490		RCT	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID 19 hospitalized	NA	9/6	inconclusive
CCAP-1 NCT04345289		RCT	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID 19 hospitalized	NA	-/-	inconclusive
Chen NCT04384380		RCT	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID 19 hospitalized	some concern	21/12	inconclusive
Duke university HCQ NCT04335552		RCT	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID 19 hospitalized	NA	4/2	inconclusive	discontinued, found in Axfors et al. meta-analysis
Duke University hydroxychloroquine/azithromycine NCT04335552		RCT	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID 19 hospitalized	NA	2/3	inconclusive
NO COVID-19 (Lyngbakken) NCT04316377		RCT	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID 19 hospitalized	some concern	27/26	inconclusive
OAHU-COVID19 NCT04345692		RCT	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID 19 hospitalized	NA	10/6	inconclusive
PROTECT A NCT04338698		RCT	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID 19 hospitalized	NA	62/63	inconclusive
PROTECT B NCT04338698		RCT	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID 19 hospitalized	NA	-/-	inconclusive
RECOVERY NCT04381936		RCT	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID 19 hospitalized	some concern	1561/3155	safety concern	inconclusive 9 % increase in deaths,deaths (time to event analysis only),death D28 (PE) with a moderate degree of certainty due to some concern in risk of bias statistically significant 14 % increase in death or ventilation with a moderate degree of certainty due to some concern in risk of bias
SOLIDARITY (WHO study) HCQ NCT04315948		RCT	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID 19 hospitalized	some concern	947/906	inconclusive	inconclusive 19 % increase in deaths,deaths (time to event analysis only),death D28 (PE) with a moderate degree of certainty due to some concern in risk of bias
Tang ChiCTR2000029868		RCT	chloroquine and derivatives	standard of care	COVID 19 hospitalized	high	75/75	inconclusive
Tang ChiCTR2000029868		RCT	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID 19 hospitalized	high	75/75	safety concern	statistically significant 3.5-fold increase in adverse events but with a low degree of certainty due to high risk of bias
Chen_chloroquine		OBS	chloroquine	standard of care	COVID 19 hospitalized	critical	17/121	inconclusive
Paccoud		OBS	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID 19 hospitalized	serious	38/46	inconclusive
COVID 19 all comers meta-analysis
Chen, ChiCTR2000030054 - Chloroquine ChiCTR2000030054		RCT	chloroquine	standard of care	COVID 19 all comers	high	18/12	inconclusive
ChiCTR2000030054-HCQ (Chen) ChiCTR2000030054		RCT	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID 19 all comers	high	18/12	inconclusive
COVID-19 mild to moderate meta-analysis
FACCT Trial NCT04392973		RCT	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID-19 mild to moderate	some concern	125/129	inconclusive	inconclusive 15 % decrease in clinical improvement (time to event analysis only) (PE) with a moderate degree of certainty due to some concern in risk of bias
Coalition Covid-19 Brazil I (Cavalcanti)-Hydroxychloroquine NCT04322123		RCT	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID-19 mild to moderate	some concern	221/227	safety concern	statistically significant 74 % increase in adverse events with a moderate degree of certainty due to some concern in risk of bias
HC-nCoV (Shanghai) NCT04261517		RCT	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID-19 mild to moderate	high	15/15	inconclusive
Kamran NCT04491994		RCT	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID-19 mild to moderate	high	360/180	inconclusive	inconclusive 5 % decrease in clinical deterioration (PE) but with a low degree of certainty due to high risk of bias
NCT04333654 NCT04333654		RCT	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID-19 mild to moderate	NA	-/-	inconclusive
Zhaowei Chen ChiCTR2000029559		RCT	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID-19 mild to moderate	high	31/31	suggested	suggested 2.4-fold increase in radiologic improvement (7-day) but with a low degree of certainty due to high risk of bias suggested 2.4-fold increase in radiologic improvement (7-day) but with a low degree of certainty due to high risk of bias
COVID-19 severe or critically meta-analysis
REMAP-CAP-HCQ NCT02735707		RCT	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID-19 severe or critically	NA	61/81	inconclusive	inconclusive 4 % increase in deaths (PE) REMAP-CAP is a randomised, embedded, multifactorial, adaptive platform trial for community-acquired pneumonia.multi-arm study
Mahevas		OBS	hydroxychloroquine	standard of care	COVID-19 severe or critically	serious	84/97	inconclusive

PE: primary endpoint; (a): to be demonstrated a result must be statistically significant on a primary endpoint (with multiplicity adjustment if necessary);
Study risk of bias assessed for the study primary endpoint(s) or the main endpoints in case of no formally defined primary endpoint(s).

Study explorer (study characteristics and results) method abbreviations pdf xlsx

COVID 19 hospitalized meta-analysis

COVID 19 all comers meta-analysis

COVID-19 mild to moderate meta-analysis

COVID-19 severe or critically meta-analysis