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Mortality rates in matched cohort, pseudo-randomised and randomised trials of convalescent plasma given to COVID-19 patients.

2020-11-20 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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IntroductionFor more than 80 years convalescent or immune sera has been used in severe life threatening infections. Since March of this year a rapidly increasing number of publications have reported series of Convalescent plasma (CP) investigations in severely ill COVID-19 patients. Objectivea brief CP scoping review focusing on early mortality MethodsWe searched available data bases. Three randomised trials, two pseudo-randomised observations and twelve matched cohort studies were identified....

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