This study was approved and registered by the Dirección General de Vigilancia del Marco Normativo de la Secretaría de Salud de Honduras (General Directorate for Regulatory Framework Surveillance of the Ministry of Health of Honduras) the eight of February of 2021; enrollment began tenth of February of 2021.
The study will analyze 23 clinical parameters, 9 laboratory studies besides complete blood count, chest radiography, time to response, adverse clinical outcomes, and hospital length of stay in 22 participants treated with a daily oral dose of 250 mg of lyophilized thymic peptides dissolved in 50 mL of water (one hour before or two hours after a meal) in addition to the standard treatment. A participant-level comparison based on registry data from Hospital de Santa Bárbara Integrado will be performed after propensity score matching. The Generic Assessment of Side Effects in Clinical Trials (GASE) will be applied in addition to monitoring of treatment-emergent adverse events.
