{"id":6178,"date":"2020-04-21T15:18:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T22:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6178"},"modified":"2021-03-09T15:19:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T23:19:42","slug":"outcomes-of-hydroxychloroquine-usage-in-united-states-veterans-hospitalized-with-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/21\/outcomes-of-hydroxychloroquine-usage-in-united-states-veterans-hospitalized-with-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Outcomes of hydroxychloroquine usage in United States veterans hospitalized with Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This retrospective analysis of 368 patients who had received hydroxychloroquine (with azithromycin or alone) explored the association between treatment and the primary outcomes of mechanical ventilation and death.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No evidence was found of reduced risk of mechanical ventilation, and use of hydroxychloroquine alone was associated with an increased risk of overall mortality. These findings highlight the importance of randomized controlled study results before widespread adoption of these drugs.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Magagnolia et al. (April 21, 2020). Outcomes of hydroxychloroquine usage in United States veterans hospitalized with Covid-19. Pre-print downloaded Apr 21 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.16.20065920\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.16.20065920<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This retrospective analysis of 368 patients who had received hydroxychloroquine (with azithromycin or alone) explored the association between treatment and the primary outcomes of mechanical ventilation and death.\u00a0\u00a0 No evidence was found of reduced risk of mechanical ventilation, and use of hydroxychloroquine alone was associated with an increased risk of overall mortality. These findings highlight&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/21\/outcomes-of-hydroxychloroquine-usage-in-united-states-veterans-hospitalized-with-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-6178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6179,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6178\/revisions\/6179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6178"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}