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Fixed‐dose combinations of drugs versus single‐drug formulations for treating pulmonary tuberculosis

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, May 2016
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Title
Fixed‐dose combinations of drugs versus single‐drug formulations for treating pulmonary tuberculosis
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, May 2016
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd009913.pub2
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Authors

Carmen R Gallardo, David Rigau Comas, Angélica Valderrama Rodríguez, Marta Roqué i Figuls, Lucy Anne Parker, Joan Caylà, Xavier Bonfill Cosp

Abstract

People who are newly diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) typically receive a standard first-line treatment regimen that consists of two months of isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol followed by four months of isoniazid and rifampicin. Fixed-dose combinations (FDCs) of these drugs are widely recommended. To compare the efficacy, safety, and acceptability of anti-tuberculosis regimens given as fixed-dose combinations compared to single-drug formulations for treating people with newly diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis. We searched the Cochrane Infectious Disease Group Specialized Register; the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL, published in the Cochrane Library, Issue 11 2015); MEDLINE (1966 to 20 November 2015); EMBASE (1980 to 20 November 2015); LILACS (1982 to 20 November 2015); the metaRegister of Controlled Trials; and the World Health Organization International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (WHO ICTRP), without language restrictions, up to 20 November 2015. Randomized controlled trials that compared the use of FDCs with single-drug formulations in adults (aged 15 years or more) newly diagnosed with pulmonary TB. Two review authors independently assessed studies for inclusion, and assessed the risk of bias and extracted data from the included trials. We used risk ratios (RRs) for dichotomous data and mean differences (MDs) for continuous data with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). We attempted to assess the effect of treatment for time-to-event measures with hazard ratios and their 95% CIs. We used the Cochrane 'Risk of bias' assessment tool to determine the risk of bias in included trials. We used the fixed-effect model when there was little heterogeneity and the random-effects model with moderate heterogeneity. We used an I² statistic value of 75% or greater to denote significant heterogeneity, in which case we did not perform a meta-analysis. We assessed the quality of evidence using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach. We included 13 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the review, which enrolled 5824 participants. Trials were published between 1987 and 2015 and included participants in treatment with newly diagnosed pulmonary TB in countries with high TB prevalence. Only two trials reported the HIV status of included participants.Overall there is little or no difference detected between FDCs and single-drug formulations for most outcomes reported. We did not detect a difference in treatment failure between FDCs compared with single-drug formulations (RR 1.28, 95% CI 0.82 to 2.00; 3606 participants, seven trials, moderate quality evidence). Relapse may be more frequent in people treated with FDCs compared to single-drug formulations, although the confidence interval (CI) includes no difference (RR 1.28, 95% CI 1.00 to 1.64; 3621 participants, 10 trials, low quality evidence). We did not detect any difference in death between fixed-dose and single-drug formulation groups (RR 0.96, 95% CI 0.67 to 1.39; 4800 participants, 11 trials, moderate quality evidence).When we compared FDCs with single-drug formulations we found little or no difference for sputum smear or culture conversion at the end of treatment (RR 0.99, 95% CI 0.96 to 1.02; 2319 participants, seven trials, high quality evidence), for serious adverse events (RR 1.45, 95% CI 0.90 to 2.33; 3388 participants, six trials, moderate quality evidence), and for adverse events that led to discontinuation of therapy (RR 0.96, 95% CI 0.56 to 1.66; 5530 participants, 13 trials, low quality evidence).We conducted a sensitivity analysis excluding studies at high risk of bias and this did not alter the review findings. Fixed-dose combinations and single-drug formulations probably have similar effects for treating people with newly diagnosed pulmonary TB.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Unknown 296 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 48 16%
Researcher 36 12%
Student > Bachelor 31 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 9%
Student > Postgraduate 16 5%
Other 48 16%
Unknown 94 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 76 25%
Nursing and Health Professions 35 12%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 21 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 3%
Psychology 8 3%
Other 42 14%
Unknown 109 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 68. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 November 2023.
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