{"id":3662,"date":"2021-02-03T22:14:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T06:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3662"},"modified":"2021-02-03T22:14:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T06:14:12","slug":"azithromycin-in-patients-admitted-to-hospital-with-covid-19-recovery-a-randomised-controlled-open-label-platform-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/03\/azithromycin-in-patients-admitted-to-hospital-with-covid-19-recovery-a-randomised-controlled-open-label-platform-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Azithromycin in Patients Admitted to Hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): A Randomised, Controlled, Open-Label, Platform Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A randomized open-label trial (RECOVERY) of azithromycin for COVID-19 found no significant differences in survival (rate ratio=0.97), duration of hospital stay (median 10 vs 11 days), or proportion of patients discharged from the hospital alive within 28 days (RR=1.04) between participants receiving azithromycin versus usual care. Among patients not receiving mechanical ventilation at baseline, no significant difference was observed in the proportion of patients meeting composite endpoints of mechanical ventilation or death (RR=0.95).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Abaleke et al. (Feb 3, 2021). Azithromycin in Patients Admitted to Hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): A Randomised, Controlled, Open-Label, Platform Trial. The Lancet.<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(21)00149-5\/fulltext\">https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(21)00149-5\/fulltext<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A randomized open-label trial (RECOVERY) of azithromycin for COVID-19 found no significant differences in survival (rate ratio=0.97), duration of hospital stay (median 10 vs 11 days), or proportion of patients discharged from the hospital alive within 28 days (RR=1.04) between participants receiving azithromycin versus usual care. Among patients not receiving mechanical ventilation at baseline, no&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/03\/azithromycin-in-patients-admitted-to-hospital-with-covid-19-recovery-a-randomised-controlled-open-label-platform-trial\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-3662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-treatment","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3663,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions\/3663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3662"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}