dexamethasone for COVID-19: living meta-analysis of clinical studies

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

display ongoing studies
Study	Ref.	Design	studied treatment	control treatment	patients	study risk of bias	sample sizes	Results
COVID-19 severe or critically meta-analysis
COVID STEROID 2 NCT04509973		RCT	Dexamethasone 12mg	dexamethasone 6mg	COVID-19 severe or critically	low	497/485	inconclusive
Rashad NCT04519385		RCT	dexamethasone	tocilizumab	COVID-19 severe or critically	high	75/74	suggested	suggested 54 % decrease in deaths,deaths (time to event analysis only) (PE) but with a low degree of certainty due to high risk of bias suggested 65 % decrease in death D28 but with a low degree of certainty due to high risk of bias

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 severe or critically meta-analysis