Review
Infectious Diseases
Cathrine Axfors, Perrine Janiaud, Andreas M. Schmitt, Janneke Van't Hooft, Emily R. Smith, Noah A. Haber, Akin Abayomi, Manal Abduljalil, Abdulkarim Abdulrahman, Yeny Acosta-Ampudia, Manuela Aguilar-Guisado, Farah Al-Beidh, Marissa M. Alejandria, Rachelle N. Alfonso, Mohammad Ali, Manaf AlQahtani, Alaa AlZamrooni, Juan-Manuel Anaya, Mark Angelo C. Ang, Ismael F. Aomar, Luis E. Argumanis, Alexander Averyanov, Vladimir P. Baklaushev, Olga Balionis, Thomas Benfield, Scott Berry, Nadia Birocco, Lynn B. Bonifacio, Asha C. Bowen, Abbie Bown, Carlos Cabello-Gutierrez, Bernardo Camacho, Adrian Camacho-Ortiz, Sally Campbell-Lee, Damon H. Cao, Ana Cardesa, Jose M. Carnate, German Jr J. Castillo, Rossana Cavallo, Fazle R. Chowdhury, Forhad U. H. Chowdhury, Giovannino Ciccone, Antonella Cingolani, Fresthel Monica M. Climacosa, Veerle Compernolle, Carlo Francisco N. Cortez, Abel Costa Neto, Sergio D'Antico, James Daly, Franca Danielle, Joshua S. Davis, Francesco Giuseppe De Rosa, Justin T. Denholm, Claudia M. Denkinger, Daniel Desmecht, Juan C. Diaz-Coronado, Juan A. Diaz Ponce-Medrano, Anne-Francoise Donneau, Teresita E. Dumagay, Susanna Dunachie, Cecile C. Dungog, Olufemi Erinoso, Ivy Mae S. Escasa, Lise J. Estcourt, Amy Evans, Agnes L. M. Evasan, Christian J. Fareli, Veronica Fernandez-Sanchez, Claudia Galassi, Juan E. Gallo, Patricia J. Garcia, Patricia L. Garcia, Jesus A. Garcia, Mutien Garigliany, Elvira Garza-Gonzalez, Deonne Thaddeus Gauiran, Paula A. Gaviria Garcia, Jose-Antonio Giron-Gonzalez, David Gomez-Almaguer, Anthony C. Gordon, Andre Gothot, Jeser Santiago Grass Guaqueta, Cameron Green, David Grimaldi, Naomi E. Hammond, Heli Harvala, Francisco M. Heralde, Jesica Herrick, Alisa M. Higgins, Thomas E. Hills, Jennifer Hines, Karin Holm, Ashraful Hoque, Eric Hoste, Jose M. Ignacio, Alexander Ivanov, Maike Janssen, Jeffrey H. Jennings, Vivekanand Jha, Ruby Anne N. King, Jens Kjeldsen-Kragh, Paul Klenerman, Aditya Kotecha, Fiorella Krapp, Luciana Labanca, Emma Laing, Mona Landin-Olsson, Pierre-Francois Laterre, Lyn-Li Lim, Jodor Lim, Oskar Ljungquist, Jorge M. Llaca-Diaz, Concepcion Lopez-Robles, Salvador Lopez-Cardenas, Ileana Lopez-Plaza, Josephine Anne C. Lucero, Maria Lundgren, Juan Macias, Sandy C. Maganito, Anna Flor G. Malundo, Ruben D. Manrique, Paola M. Manzini, Miguel Marcos, Ignacio Marquez, Francisco Javier Martinez-Marcos, Ana M. Mata, Colin J. McArthur, Zoe K. McQuilten, Bryan J. McVerry, David K. Menon, Geert Meyfroidt, Ma Angelina L. Mirasol, Benoit Misset, James S. Molton, Alric Mondragon, Diana M. Monsalve, Parastoo Moradi Choghakabodi, Susan C. Morpeth, Paul R. Mouncey, Michel Moutschen, Carsten Muller-Tidow, Erin Murphy, Tome Najdovski, Alistair D. Nichol, Henrik Nielsen, Richard M. Novak, Matthew V. N. O'Sullivan, Julian Olalla, Akin Osibogun, Bodunrin Osikomaiya, Salvador Oyonarte, Juan M. Pardo-Oviedo, Mahesh C. Patel, David L. Paterson, Carlos A. Pena-Perez, Angel A. Perez-Calatayud, Eduardo Perez-Alba, Anastasia Perkina, Naomi Perry, Mandana Pouladzadeh, Inmaculada Poyato, David J. Price, Anne Kristine H. Quero, Md M. Rahman, Md S. Rahman, Mayur Ramesh, Carolina Ramirez-Santana, Magnus Rasmussen, Megan A. Rees, Eduardo Rego, Jason A. Roberts, David J. Roberts, Yhojan Rodriguez, Jesus Rodriguez-Bano, Benjamin A. Rogers, Manuel Rojas, Alberto Romero, Kathryn M. Rowan, Fabio Saccona, Mehdi Safdarian, Maria Clariza M. Santos, Joe Sasadeusz, Gitana Scozzari, Manu Shankar-Hari, Gorav Sharma, Thomas Snelling, Alonso Soto, Pedrito Y. Tagayuna, Amy Tang, Geneva Tatem, Luciana Teofili, Steven Y. C. Tong, Alexis F. Turgeon, Januario D. Veloso, Balasubramanian Venkatesh, Yanet Ventura-Enriquez, Steve A. Webb, Lothar Wiese, Christian Wiken, Erica M. Wood, Gaukhar M. Yusubalieva, Kai Zacharowski, Ryan Zarychanski, Nina Khanna, David Moher, Steven N. Goodman, John P. A. Ioannidis, Lars G. Hemkens
Summary: This study assessed the benefits of convalescent plasma treatment compared to placebo or no treatment in COVID-19 patients and found that convalescent plasma treatment did not reduce all-cause mortality. The researchers recommend that convalescent plasma treatment for COVID-19 patients should not be used outside of randomized trials. Collaboration among trial investigators can inform both evidence generation and evidence application in patient care.
BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES
(2021)