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TerminatedNCT04344444RCTUpdated Jan 21, 2022

Treatment in Patients With Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19 With Early Moderate or Severe Disease

A Phase 3 interventional study of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin in COVID-19, sponsored by LCMC Health. Terminated at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 100 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-01-21.

Sponsored by LCMC Health · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment

Why this study was terminated
Lack of efficacy data from other studies

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was Apr 2021, 5 years 5 months ago, and no results have been posted to the registry.
Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
22
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 100 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study proposes to evaluate clinical outcomes and viral load in COVID-19 infected patients with early moderate and severe disease admitted to the hospital and randomized to one of three arms. Patients will be randomized to supportive care, OR hydroxychloroquine alone, OR hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin.

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This is a phase 3 study.

Primary Objective:

  • To evaluate clinical outcomes in patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 with early moderate to severe disease in a randomized controlled trial.

Secondary Objectives:

  • To evaluate quantitative viral load over time
  • To evaluate length of hospital stay and days in ICU
  • To evaluate toxicity of the treatment options
  • To evaluate rate of readmission after hospital discharge
  • To evaluate duration of clinical symptoms

Arm A:

Control Arm - Supportive Care Only

Arm B:

Hydroxychloroquine 400 mg po bid on Day 1 Hydroxychloroquine 200 mg po bid Days 2 through 5

Arm C:

Hydroxychloroquine as in Arm B AND Azithromycin 500 mg po on Day 1 Azithromycin 250 mg po days 2 through 5

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Conditions studied

  • COVID-19

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In context

COVID-19

7,640 studies on the registry are indexed under COVID-19; 488 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 22 is below the median of 100 across 4,099 interventional studies indexed under COVID-19.

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Lead sponsor

LCMC Health is the lead sponsor of 3 studies on the registry; 1 is open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 100 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • Age greater than 18 years
  • Positive SARS-CoV-2 testing or consistent clinical syndrome (based on clinical picture e.g. characteristic infiltrates on chest x-ray, laboratory findings, and with agreement by two physicians) in patients under investigation (PUIs).
  • Onset of symptoms \< 7 days from date of enrollment
  • Oxygen saturation of >94% on room air with defined risk factors (Table 1) consistent with moderate disease OR oxygen saturation of \< 94% on room air consistent with severe disease
  • Ability and willingness to comply with study procedures

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • QTc greater than 450 milliseconds on screening EKG
  • Pregnant or lactating women
  • Inability to take oral pills or inability to use a feeding tube
  • Inability to obtain informed consent either from the patient or from the next of kin if patient is incapacitated. For the purpose of this study obtaining a verbal consent from a family member on the phone with a witness will be considered acceptable since there is a 'no visitor' policy in force at hospitals.
  • Patients requiring ICU level care
  • use of azithromycin or hydroxychloroquine within 30 days prior to admission
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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
22 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • No intervention
    Arm A

    Supportive Care only

  • Experimental
    Arm B

    Hydroxychloroquine 400 mg po bid on Day 1 Hydroxychloroquine 200 mg po bid Days 2 through 5

    Drug: Hydroxychloroquine

  • Experimental
    Arm C

    Hydroxychloroquine as in Arm B AND Azithromycin 500 mg po on Day 1 Azithromycin 250 mg po days 2 through 5

    Drug: Hydroxychloroquine · Drug: Azithromycin

Interventions

  • DrugHydroxychloroquine

    tablets provided as described in Arm B

  • DrugAzithromycin

    tablets provided as described in Arm C

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Most severe outcome

    ordinal outcome of most severe a patient experienced after inpatient admission

    Time frame: 5 days

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Study locations

1 site
  • University Medical Center New Orleans
    New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, United States
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References and documents

Study documents

  • Informed consent form · Apr 7, 2021

Documents are hosted by the registry — open the source record to download them.

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jan 21, 2022, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT04344444
Lead sponsor
LCMC Health
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Apr 14, 2020
Start date
Apr 13, 2020
Primary completion
Apr 10, 2021
Completion
Jan 5, 2022
Last update
Jan 21, 2022

Study contacts

Meredith Clement, MD
principal investigator · LSUHSC/UMCNO

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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