Does Adding of Hydroxychloroquine to the Standard Care Provide any Benefit in Reducing the Mortality among COVID-19 Patients?: a Systematic Review

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¹ Department of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Gorakhpur, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, 273008, India. dr.tkp2006@yahoo.co.in.
² Department of Pharmacology, Government Medical College, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, 364001, India.
³ Department of Radiology, Stanford Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA.
⁴ Department of Pharmacology, GMERS Medical College, Gotri, Vadodara, Gujarat, 390021, India.
⁵ Department of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Gorakhpur, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, 273008, India.

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doi: 10.1007/s11481-020-09940-9. Epub 2020 Sep 2.

¹ Department of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Gorakhpur, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, 273008, India. dr.tkp2006@yahoo.co.in.
² Department of Pharmacology, Government Medical College, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, 364001, India.
³ Department of Radiology, Stanford Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA.
⁴ Department of Pharmacology, GMERS Medical College, Gotri, Vadodara, Gujarat, 390021, India.
⁵ Department of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Gorakhpur, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, 273008, India.

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1. Patel TK, Barvaliya M, Kevadiya BD, Patel PB, Bhalla HL (2020) Does adding of Hydroxychloroquine to the standard care provide any benefit in reducing the mortality among COVID-19 patients?: a systematic review. J NeuroImmune Pharmacol:1–9. 10.1007/s11481-020-09930-x - PMC - PubMed