Clinical and Economic Benefits of Lenzilumab Plus Standard of Care Compared with Standard of Care Alone for the Treatment of Hospitalized Patients with Coronavirus Disease 19 (COVID-19) from the Perspective of National Health Service England

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  1. SciScore for 10.1101/2022.02.11.22270859: (What is this?)

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    Table 1: Rigor

    NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
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    Cost Calculator: Base case costs included drug acquisition and administration for lenzilumab and remdesivir and hospital resource costs based on the level of care required.
    Cost
    suggested: (COST, RRID:SCR_014098)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).


    Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
    As with extrapolation of any clinical trial results, this study had several limitations. The analysis used data from the LIVE-AIR Phase 3 clinical trial that may have been subject to selection bias and that was predominantly conducted in US hospitals. Consequently, the findings from the trial may not be fully generalizable to a UK population and/or UK hospital setting based on potential differences in treatment patterns (eg, length of hospital stay) for hospitalized patients with COVID-19 between the US and UK. It should also be noted that the LIVE-AIR trial was conducted earlier in the pandemic and thus, prior to vaccinations and the emergence of new COVID-19 variants, both of which have been reported to affect hospital length of stay.11,63,64 As a result, time to recovery inputs derived from the clinical trial may differ from current real-world values. However, it is anticipated that the ongoing ACTIV-5/BET-B trial, which has completed the enrollment of over 400 patients in the primary analysis population, will provide data on the use of lenzilumab for hospitalized patients infected with different COVID-19 variants and with differing vaccination statuses.46,47 Additionally, the Black subgroups from the LIVE-AIR trial that were assessed in the per-patient calculator were limited by small sample sizes and will require further validation using the results from the upcoming ACTIV-5/BET-B trial. Consideration should also be given to the fact that the current analyses were conduc...

    Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:

    IdentifierStatusTitle
    NCT04351152Active, not recruitingPhase 3 Study to Evaluate Efficacy and Safety of Lenzilumab …


    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

    Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.


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