What are the treatment regimens commonly used for the different levels of severity of COVID-19 in the Philippines?
- Author:
Christine May Perandos-Astudillo
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Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH: COVID-19
- From: Southern Philippines Medical Center Journal of Health Care Services 2022;8(1):1-
- CountryPhilippines
- Language:English
- Abstract: The Philippine COVID-19 Living Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) is a set of guidelines that provides up-to-date evidence-based recommendations on COVID-19 treatment, diagnosis, infection prevention and control. This living guideline follows the Department of Health’s Manual for Clinical Practice Guideline Development1 and the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) Approach.2 The diagram below is a summary of the treatment regimens gathered from the Philippine COVID-19 Living Recommendations website. The recommendation for each drug regimen is based on the assessment and literature review done by the Living CPG Task Force (LCTF).3 The LCTF follows the classification of quality of evidence enumerated and described in Box 1.