In-hospital mortality outcomes of favipiravir in patients with moderate to severe COVID-19 infection: An emulated target trial using real-world data from the largest field hospital in Thailand

• Lalita Lumkul ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors, LL and KT are also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Clinical Statistics, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Center of Multidisciplinary Technology for Advanced Medicine (CMUTEAM), Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

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• Krittai Tanasombatkul ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors, LL and KT are also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Clinical Statistics, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology (BioCE), Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

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• Phongsak Nitikaroon,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Office of the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand

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• Thotsaporn Morasert ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thotsaporn Morasert, Phichayut Phinyo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: thot_kwan@hotmail.com (TM); phichayutphinyo@gmail.com (PP)

  Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Suratthani Hospital, Surat Thani, Thailand

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• Phichayut Phinyo

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thotsaporn Morasert, Phichayut Phinyo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: thot_kwan@hotmail.com (TM); phichayutphinyo@gmail.com (PP)

  Affiliations Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Clinical Statistics, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Center of Multidisciplinary Technology for Advanced Medicine (CMUTEAM), Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology (BioCE), Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8543-6254

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