Favipiravir vs no treatment, supportive treatment, or other antiviral treatment: Time to clinical improvement (defined as time to a 2‐point reduction in patients’ admission status on WHO’s ordinal scale)
It is very uncertain whether favipiravir changes time to clinical improvement (defined as time to a 2‐point reduction… compared with no treatment, supportive treatment, or other antiviral treatment (very low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Favipiravir vs no treatment, supportive treatment, or other antiviral treatment Time to clinical improvement (defined as time to a 2‐point reduction in patients’ admission status on WHO’s ordinal scale) · people with confirmed COVID‐19 It is very uncertain whether favipiravir changes time to clinical improvement (defined as time to a 2‐point reduction… compared with no treatment, supportive treatment, or other antiviral treatment (very low certainty). Favipiravir for treating COVID‐19 (2024) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | HR 1.13 [0.69, 1.83] | 4 studies · 721 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Favipiravir for treating COVID‐19 2024 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.