Autor: |
James Wilson, Koert Ritmeijer, Fabiana Alves, Prabin Dahal, Kasia Stepniewska, Shyam Sundar, Philippe J Guérin, Manju Rahi, Ahmed Musa, Krishna Pandey, Rishikesh Kumar, Sauman Singh-Phulgenda, Niyamat Ali Siddiqui, Abdalla Munir, Caitlin Naylor, Gemma Buck, Paritosh Malaviya |
Jazyk: |
angličtina |
Rok vydání: |
2023 |
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Zdroj: |
BMJ Open, Vol 13, Iss 12 (2023) |
Druh dokumentu: |
article |
ISSN: |
2044-6055 |
DOI: |
10.1136/bmjopen-2023-074841 |
Popis: |
Introduction Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a parasitic disease with an estimated 30 000 new cases occurring annually. Despite anaemia being a common haematological manifestation of VL, the evolution of different haematological characteristics following treatment remains poorly understood. An individual participant data meta-analysis (IPD-MA) is planned to characterise the haematological dynamics in patients with VL.Methods and analysis The Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) VL data platform is a global repository of IPD from therapeutic studies identified through a systematic search of published literature (PROSPERO registration: CRD42021284622). The platform currently holds datasets from clinical trials standardised to a common data format. Corresponding authors and principal investigators of the studies indexed in the IDDO VL data platform meeting the eligibility criteria for inclusion were invited to be part of the collaborative IPD-MA. Mixed-effects multivariable regression models will be constructed to identify determinants of haematological parameters by taking clustering within study sites into account.Ethics and dissemination This IPD-MA meets the criteria for waiver of ethical review as defined by the Oxford Tropical Research Ethics Committee (OxTREC) granted to IDDO, as the research consists of secondary analysis of existing anonymised data (exempt granted on 29 March 2023, OxTREC REF: IDDO). Ethics approval was granted by the ICMR-Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences ethics committee (letter no.: RMRI/EC/30/2022) on 4 July 2022. The results of this analysis will be disseminated at conferences, the IDDO website and peer-reviewed publications in open-access journals. The findings of this research will be critically important for control programmes at regional and global levels, policymakers and groups developing new VL treatments.PROSPERO registration number CRD42021284622. |
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