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直接观察抗逆转录病毒疗法:随机临床试验的系统审查和元分析
Nathan Ford1, Jean B Nachega2, Mark E Engel3
1Médecins Sans Frontières, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
Lancet (London, England)
|December 4, 2009
概括
与自我治疗相比,接受抗逆转录病毒治疗的艾滋病毒患者的直接观察治疗没有显著改善守或病毒抑制. 这一系统性审查质疑其广泛用于改善患者遵守的情况.
科学领域:
- 传染性疾病 传染性疾病
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 药理学 药理学是指药理学的学科.
背景情况:
- 高活性抗逆转录病毒疗法 (HAART) 的坚持对于管理艾滋病毒感染至关重要.
- 建议直接观察治疗 (DOT) 来改善坚持,但其有效性和成本效益尚未确定.
- 这项研究解决了对DOT对HAART坚持影响的确证据的需求.
研究的目的:
- 系统地审查和元分析随机试验,比较直接观察治疗 (DOT) 与自给自取的抗逆转录病毒治疗 (ART).
- 评估DOT对病毒抑制的影响,作为艾滋病毒成年患者的主要结局.
- 评估DOT在改善对ART的遵守方面所带来的好处和成本效益.
主要方法:
- 随机对照试验的系统审查和元分析.
- 在多个数据库,艾滋病毒会议网站和2009年7月的出版物中进行的搜索.
- 主要结局:在研究结束时进行病毒学抑制. 使用随机效应模型计算的聚合相对风险 (95%CI).
主要成果:
- 包括12项研究,4项专注于高风险人群 (吸毒者,无家可归者).
- 十项研究 (n=1862名参与者) 报告了病毒抑制.
- 用DOT与自给药进行病毒抑制的相对风险是1.04 (95% CI 0.91-1.20,p=0.55),具有中等异质性 (I2=53.8%).
结论:
- 直接观察到的抗逆转录病毒疗法似乎对艾滋病毒患者的自我治疗没有显著的益处.
- 这些发现质疑DOT的常规实施,以提高一般患者群体的坚持.
- 可能需要进一步的研究来确定特定的子组或环境,其中DOT可能是有益的.
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