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Trial of Early Therapies During Non-hospitalized Outpatient Window for COVID-19 (TREATNOW)

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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04372628
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : May 4, 2020
Results First Posted : January 26, 2023
Last Update Posted : January 26, 2023
Sponsor:
Collaborator:
AbbVie
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Todd Rice, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Brief Summary:
Blinded, multicenter, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial evaluating lopinavir/ritonavir vs placebo in early outpatient treatment of adults with COVID-19

Condition or disease Intervention/treatment Phase
COVID-19 Drug: Lopinavir/Ritonavir 400 mg/100 mg Other: Placebo Phase 2

Detailed Description:
We will conduct an investigator-initiated, multicenter, blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial evaluating lopinavir/ritonavir vs placebo for early treatment of adults with COVID-19 in the outpatient setting prior to hospitalization. Patients, treating clinicians, and study personnel will all be blinded to study group assignment.

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Study Type : Interventional  (Clinical Trial)
Actual Enrollment : 452 participants
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Sequential Assignment
Intervention Model Description: Blinded, multicenter, placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial
Masking: Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator)
Masking Description: Lopinavir/Ritonavir tablets or unmatched placebo tablets
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: Trial of Early Therapies During Non-hospitalized Outpatient Window (TREAT NOW) for COVID-19
Actual Study Start Date : June 1, 2020
Actual Primary Completion Date : December 16, 2021
Actual Study Completion Date : January 18, 2022

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Arm Intervention/treatment
Active Comparator: Group 1 - Lopinavir/Ritonavir
Lopinavir/Ritonavir 400 mg/100 mg orally twice daily for twenty-eight doses (Days 1-14)
Drug: Lopinavir/Ritonavir 400 mg/100 mg
Lopinavir/Ritonavir tablets
Other Name: Kaletra

Placebo Comparator: Control Group
Placebo unmatched orally twice daily for 14 days
Other: Placebo
Unmatched placebo




Primary Outcome Measures :
  1. Modified COVID Ordinal Outcomes Scale: Study Day 15 (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group) [ Time Frame: Day 1 to Day 15 ]
    Improvement of clinical condition of the participant defined by the Modified COVID Ordinal Outcomes Scale (Modified from the COVID-19 WHO ordinal Outcomes score to fit the outpatient setting). This scale reflects a range of participants from dead to not hospitalized and with no limitations to activities of daily living. A score of 1 is "death", 2 is "Hospitalized on mechanical ventilation or extracorporeal membrane oxygenator (ECMO)", 3 is "Hospitalized on supplemental oxygen", 4 is "Hospitalized not on supplemental oxygen", 5 is "Not hospitalized with symptoms and limitation in activity", 6 is "Not hospitalized with symptoms but with no limitation in activity", 7 is "Not hospitalized without symptoms nor limitation in activity". COVID outcomes are more severe at the lower end of the scale and milder at the higher end of the scale for this outpatient trial.


Secondary Outcome Measures :
  1. Modified COVID Ordinal Outcome Scale: Study Day 8 (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group) [ Time Frame: on or at Day 8 ]
    Improvement of clinical condition of the participant defined by the Modified COVID Ordinal Outcomes Scale (Modified from the COVID-19 WHO ordinal Outcomes score to fit the outpatient setting). This scale reflects a range of participants from dead to not hospitalized and with no limitations to activities of daily living. A score of 1 is "death", 2 is "Hospitalized on mechanical ventilation or extracorporeal membrane oxygenator (ECMO)", 3 is "Hospitalized on supplemental oxygen", 4 is "Hospitalized not on supplemental oxygen", 5 is "Not hospitalized with symptoms and limitation in activity", 6 is "Not hospitalized with symptoms but with no limitation in activity", 7 is "Not hospitalized without symptoms nor limitation in activity". COVID outcomes are more severe at the lower end of the scale and milder at the higher end of the scale for this outpatient trial.

  2. Modified COVID Ordinal Outcome Scale: Study Day 29 (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group) [ Time Frame: on or at Day 29 ]
    Improvement of clinical condition of the participant defined by the Modified COVID Ordinal Outcomes Scale (Modified from the COVID-19 WHO ordinal Outcomes score to fit the outpatient setting). This scale reflects a range of participants from dead to not hospitalized and with no limitations to activities of daily living. A score of 1 is "death", 2 is "Hospitalized on mechanical ventilation or extracorporeal membrane oxygenator (ECMO)", 3 is "Hospitalized on supplemental oxygen", 4 is "Hospitalized not on supplemental oxygen", 5 is "Not hospitalized with symptoms and limitation in activity", 6 is "Not hospitalized with symptoms but with no limitation in activity", 7 is "Not hospitalized without symptoms nor limitation in activity". COVID outcomes are more severe at the lower end of the scale and milder at the higher end of the scale for this outpatient trial.

  3. Number of Patients Hospitalized: Day 1 to 29 (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group) [ Time Frame: Day 1 to Day 29 ]
    Number of patients hospitalized from Day 1 to 29 (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group)

  4. Time to Hospitalization Day 1 to Day 29 (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group) [ Time Frame: Day 1 to Day 29 ]
    Number of days from enrollment to hospitalization (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group)

  5. Time to Symptom Resolution: Day 1 to Day 29 (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group) [ Time Frame: Day 1 to Day 29 ]
    Number of days from enrollment to resolution of COVID-19 symptoms (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group)

  6. All-cause, All-location Mortality: Day 1 to Day 29 (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group) [ Time Frame: Day 1 to Day 29 ]
    Survival status (All-cause, all-location mortality) from Day 1 to Day 29 (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group)

  7. Oxygen-free Days: Day 1 to Day 29 (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group) [ Time Frame: Day 1 to Day 29 ]
    Number of Days without oxygen Day 1 to Day 29 (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group)

  8. Fever-free Days: Day 1 to Day 29 (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group) [ Time Frame: Day 1 to Day 29 ]
    Number of days without fever from Day 1 to Day 29 (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group)

  9. Ventilator-free Days: Day 1 to Day 29 (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group) [ Time Frame: Day 1 to Day 29 ]
    Number of days without ventilator use from Day 1 to Day 29 (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group)

  10. ICU-free Days: Day 1 to Day 29 (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group) [ Time Frame: Day 1 to Day 29 ]
    Number of days outside the ICU from Day 1 to Day 29 (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group)

  11. Hospital-free Days: Day 1 to Day 29 (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group) [ Time Frame: Day 1 to Day 29 ]
    Number of days outside the hospital from Day 1 to Day 29 (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group)

  12. Vasopressor-free Days Through Study Day 29 (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group) [ Time Frame: Day 1 to Day 29 ]
    Number of vasopressor-free days through Study Day 29 (Group 2 and Placebo Control Group)



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Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older   (Adult, Older Adult)
Sexes Eligible for Study:   All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Age ≥18 years
  2. Laboratory-confirmed severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) or other molecular test collected within the past 6 days
  3. Current symptoms of acute respiratory infection for ≤6 days, defined as one or more of the following: cough, fever, shortness of breath, chest pain, abdominal pain, nausea/vomiting, diarrhea, body aches, weakness/fatigue.

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Prisoner
  2. Pregnancy
  3. Breast feeding
  4. Two individuals from the same household are not enrolled in the study
  5. Unable to randomize within 6 days after onset of acute respiratory infection symptoms
  6. Hospitalization within the 6 days prior to randomization
  7. Inability to swallow oral medications
  8. Refusal or inability to be contacted and participate in daily symptom/safety monitoring in English or Spanish during the two-week follow-up period
  9. Previous enrollment in this trial
  10. Known severe chronic kidney disease requiring dialysis
  11. Known severe liver disease [cirrhosis or >3 times upper limit of normal for aspartate aminotransferase (AST) or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) in medical record if available]
  12. Known hepatitis B or hepatitis C infection
  13. Known history of jaundice
  14. Current heavy alcohol use, defined as 8 drinks or more per week for women or 15 drinks or more per week for men
  15. Known seizure disorder
  16. Known human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
  17. Known history of pancreatitis
  18. Known history of prolonged QT interval [Long QT Syndrome, patient report, or corrected QT interval (QTc) >500 milliseconds on most recently available electrocardiogram within the past 2 years]
  19. Receipt of >1 dose of lopinavir/ritonavir in the 10 days prior to enrollment
  20. Known allergy to lopinavir/ritonavir
  21. Currently prescribed (with planned continuation) or planned administration during 14-day study period of medication at high risk for QT prolongation as follows:

    Antiarrhythmics: Amiodarone, disopyramide, dofetilide, dronedarone, flecainide, ibutilide, procainamide, propafenone, quinidine, sotalol Anti-cancer: Arsenic trioxide, oxaliplatin, vandetanib Antidepressants: Amitriptyline, citalopram, escitalopram, imipramine Antimicrobials: azithromycin, ciprofloxacin, clarithromycin, erythromycin, fluconazole, levofloxacin, moxifloxacin, pentamidine, hydroxychloroquine Antipsychotics: haloperidol, chlorpromazine, droperidol, olanzapine, pimozide, quetiapine, thioridazine, risperidone, ziprasidone Others: cilostazol, cimetidine, cisapride, donepezil, methadone, ondansetron, sumatriptan

  22. Currently prescribed (with planned continuation) or planned administration during 14-day study period of any of the following medications: alfuzosin, apalutamide, astemizole, ergot-containing medicines (including dihydroergotamine mesylate, ergotamine tartrate, methylergonovine), lomitapide, lovastatin, lurasidone, midazolam, phenobarbital, phenytoin, ranolazine, rifampin, sildenafil, simvastatin, St. John's Wort, terfenadine, triazolam. Patients who are on warfarin or fluticasone will be advised to contact their primary care provider to advise them that they are in the trial and possibly receiving lopinavir/ritonavir which can influence levels of either drug and may require more frequent monitoring.

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Locations
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United States, Colorado
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80045
United States, Massachusetts
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
United States, Mississippi
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, Mississippi, United States, 39216
United States, Tennessee
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37203
United States, Utah
Intermountain
Murray, Utah, United States, 84107
United States, Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin, United States, 53705
Sponsors and Collaborators
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
AbbVie
Investigators
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Principal Investigator: Todd Rice, MD Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  Study Documents (Full-Text)

Documents provided by Todd Rice, Vanderbilt University Medical Center:
Study Protocol  [PDF] January 26, 2021
Statistical Analysis Plan  [PDF] December 23, 2021
Informed Consent Form  [PDF] January 21, 2021

Additional Information:
Publications:

Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
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Responsible Party: Todd Rice, Associate Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04372628    
Other Study ID Numbers: 200827
First Posted: May 4, 2020    Key Record Dates
Results First Posted: January 26, 2023
Last Update Posted: January 26, 2023
Last Verified: January 2023
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
Plan to Share IPD: No

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Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: Yes
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: No
Product Manufactured in and Exported from the U.S.: No
Keywords provided by Todd Rice, Vanderbilt University Medical Center:
Coronavirus
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
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COVID-19
Pneumonia, Viral
Pneumonia
Respiratory Tract Infections
Infections
Virus Diseases
Coronavirus Infections
Coronaviridae Infections
Nidovirales Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Ritonavir
Lopinavir
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Viral Protease Inhibitors
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-HIV Agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors