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COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines: Do They Really Reflect Best Medical Practices to Manage the Pandemic?
SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) has been changing the world since December 2019. A comprehensive search into many COVID-19 treatment guidelines was conducted and reported in this article. This is a review paper to probe differences in COVID-19 managing strategies and explore the most common treatment plans am...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8167744/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33915690 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/idr13020029 |
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author | Jirjees, Feras Saad, Ali K Al Hano, Zahraa Hatahet, Taher Al Obaidi, Hala Dallal Bashi, Yahya H |
author_facet | Jirjees, Feras Saad, Ali K Al Hano, Zahraa Hatahet, Taher Al Obaidi, Hala Dallal Bashi, Yahya H |
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description | SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) has been changing the world since December 2019. A comprehensive search into many COVID-19 treatment guidelines was conducted and reported in this article. This is a review paper to probe differences in COVID-19 managing strategies and explore the most common treatment plans among countries. Published guidelines from 23 countries and three references guidelines—until the end of 2020—were included in this article. The majority of COVID-19 treatment options were reported in this review and it includes antiviral drugs, antimalarial drugs, antibiotics, corticosteroids, immunotherapy, anticoagulants, and other pharmacological treatment. The presence of such information from different countries in a single comprehensive review article could help in understanding and speculation of variation in the recommended treatment in each country. This might be related to the cost of medications, the access to the medications, availability of medication that could potentially be useful in managing COVID-19 cases, and the availability/capacity of healthcare facilities. Finally, although there are various treatment groups listed in the published therapeutic guidelines worldwide, unfortunately, there is no evidence for effectiveness of most of these medications in reducing the COVID-19 mortality curve over more than one year of this global pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-81677442021-06-02 COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines: Do They Really Reflect Best Medical Practices to Manage the Pandemic? Jirjees, Feras Saad, Ali K Al Hano, Zahraa Hatahet, Taher Al Obaidi, Hala Dallal Bashi, Yahya H Infect Dis Rep Review SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) has been changing the world since December 2019. A comprehensive search into many COVID-19 treatment guidelines was conducted and reported in this article. This is a review paper to probe differences in COVID-19 managing strategies and explore the most common treatment plans among countries. Published guidelines from 23 countries and three references guidelines—until the end of 2020—were included in this article. The majority of COVID-19 treatment options were reported in this review and it includes antiviral drugs, antimalarial drugs, antibiotics, corticosteroids, immunotherapy, anticoagulants, and other pharmacological treatment. The presence of such information from different countries in a single comprehensive review article could help in understanding and speculation of variation in the recommended treatment in each country. This might be related to the cost of medications, the access to the medications, availability of medication that could potentially be useful in managing COVID-19 cases, and the availability/capacity of healthcare facilities. Finally, although there are various treatment groups listed in the published therapeutic guidelines worldwide, unfortunately, there is no evidence for effectiveness of most of these medications in reducing the COVID-19 mortality curve over more than one year of this global pandemic. MDPI 2021-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8167744/ /pubmed/33915690 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/idr13020029 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ). |
spellingShingle | Review Jirjees, Feras Saad, Ali K Al Hano, Zahraa Hatahet, Taher Al Obaidi, Hala Dallal Bashi, Yahya H COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines: Do They Really Reflect Best Medical Practices to Manage the Pandemic? |
title | COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines: Do They Really Reflect Best Medical Practices to Manage the Pandemic? |
title_full | COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines: Do They Really Reflect Best Medical Practices to Manage the Pandemic? |
title_fullStr | COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines: Do They Really Reflect Best Medical Practices to Manage the Pandemic? |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines: Do They Really Reflect Best Medical Practices to Manage the Pandemic? |
title_short | COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines: Do They Really Reflect Best Medical Practices to Manage the Pandemic? |
title_sort | covid-19 treatment guidelines: do they really reflect best medical practices to manage the pandemic? |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8167744/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33915690 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/idr13020029 |
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