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The COVID-19 pandemic: is our medicine still evidence-based?

There is no randomized controlled trial that demonstrated the efficacy of antiviral therapy against COVID-19 yet. However, physicians are prescribing different drugs to a large part of COVID-19 population in the hope they will cure them. This does not reflect the evidence-based medicine approach. Wh...

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Autor principal: Deana, Cristian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8824855/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32468413
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11845-020-02258-8
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description There is no randomized controlled trial that demonstrated the efficacy of antiviral therapy against COVID-19 yet. However, physicians are prescribing different drugs to a large part of COVID-19 population in the hope they will cure them. This does not reflect the evidence-based medicine approach. What we need is more evidence-based knowledge about what routine care practices we should to apply to ameliorate symptoms of patients and fight COVID-19 pathology.
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spelling pubmed-88248552022-02-09 The COVID-19 pandemic: is our medicine still evidence-based? Deana, Cristian Ir J Med Sci Historical and Literary There is no randomized controlled trial that demonstrated the efficacy of antiviral therapy against COVID-19 yet. However, physicians are prescribing different drugs to a large part of COVID-19 population in the hope they will cure them. This does not reflect the evidence-based medicine approach. What we need is more evidence-based knowledge about what routine care practices we should to apply to ameliorate symptoms of patients and fight COVID-19 pathology. Springer International Publishing 2020-05-28 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8824855/ /pubmed/32468413 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11845-020-02258-8 Text en © Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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