DoseChecker for Pc

1. This dosing regimen will yield the highest therapeutic dose attainable without exceeding the toxic limit defined by the Actual Body Weight method.

2. Instead of placing the patient on either 400 mg per day or 200 mg per day (the drug comes only as a 200 mg tablet), the app suggests a weekly dosing regimen using a combination of 400 mg and 200 mg daily doses.

3. Tested and approved by physicians from the Harvard-affiliated hospitals Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Massachusetts General Hospital, this app is intended for use by physicians and other health care providers who prescribe hydroxychloroquine to their patients or who monitor the ocular effects of this medication on their patients.

4. DoseChecker is the first and only app that helps clinicians develop a safe dosing regimen for hydroxychloroquine.

5. In addition, the dosing recommendations always fall within the approved drug labeling (which also obviates the need for FDA mobile medical app registration).

6. If you want to use the metric system for patient data entry, tap the Disclaimer/Change to Metric button.

7. Thus, all physicians can use the app to rapidly and efficiently determine the safest dose of hydroxychloroquine--the most important step in preventing irreversible vision loss from hydroxychloroquine retinopathy.

8. The app uses an adjustable weekly dosing schedule.

9. The clinician just enters the patient’s weight in pounds or kilograms and touches the calculate button.

10. Blinking cursor is to the right of the default entry for patient’s current Dose (400 mg).

11. The app uses the Actual Body Weight method, following American Academy of Ophthalmology 2016 guidelines.

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