Exploring study design foibles in randomized controlled trials on convalescent plasma in hospitalized COVID-19 patients

M Franchini, C Mengoli, A Casadevall, D Focosi - Life, 2024 - mdpi.com
Background: Sample size estimation is an essential step in the design of randomized
controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating a treatment effect. Sample size is a critical variable in …

Towards the identification of the correct place for convalescent plasma among COVID-19 therapies

M Franchini, D Focosi - Infectious Diseases, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Plasma collected from recovered individuals was utilized in the past decades to facet
several infectious disease outbreaks, particularly those from respiratory viruses [1]. Likewise …