{"id":736,"date":"2020-09-04T17:13:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T00:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=736"},"modified":"2020-09-09T17:14:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T00:14:38","slug":"hydroxychloroquine-and-chloroquine-prescribing-patterns-by-provider-specialty-following-initial-reports-of-potential-benefit-for-covid-19-treatment-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/04\/hydroxychloroquine-and-chloroquine-prescribing-patterns-by-provider-specialty-following-initial-reports-of-potential-benefit-for-covid-19-treatment-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine Prescribing Patterns by Provider Specialty Following Initial Reports of Potential Benefit for COVID-19 Treatment \u2014 United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 New prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine in the US by medical professionals in specialties that do not routinely use these medications (&lt;2% of prescriptions in 2019) rose from 1,143 in February 2020 to 75,596 in March 2020, an 80-fold increase from March 2019. These medications were reported to have benefits for prevention and treatment of COVID-19 in the early months of the pandemic, but are not currently recommended by federal guidelines.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bull-Otterson et al. (Sept 4, 2020). Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine Prescribing Patterns by Provider Specialty Following Initial Reports of Potential Benefit for COVID-19 Treatment \u2014 United States, January\u2013June 2020. MMWR. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6935a4\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6935a4<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 New prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine in the US by medical professionals in specialties that do not routinely use these medications (&lt;2% of prescriptions in 2019) rose from 1,143 in February 2020 to 75,596 in March 2020, an 80-fold increase from March 2019. These medications were reported to have benefits for prevention and treatment&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/04\/hydroxychloroquine-and-chloroquine-prescribing-patterns-by-provider-specialty-following-initial-reports-of-potential-benefit-for-covid-19-treatment-united-states\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-treatment","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}