Corticosteroid

Established Pharmacologic Class (EPC) Comparison, United States, 2020

Total Prescriptions in (2020)

Drug Name	Total Prescriptions (2020)	Percent Share
Fluticasone	24,777,490	21.8%
Prednisone	19,044,927	16.8%
Fluticasone; Salmeterol	11,577,409	10.2%
Budesonide; Formoterol	11,114,690	9.8%
Triamcinolone	6,422,562	5.7%
Fluticasone; Vilanterol	5,678,546	5%
Hydrocortisone	3,998,412	3.5%
Prednisolone	3,894,469	3.4%
Methylprednisolone	3,535,988	3.1%
Clobetasol	3,395,469	3%
Budesonide	2,337,016	2.1%
Beclomethasone	2,184,210	1.9%
Fluticasone; Umeclidinium; Vilanterol	2,125,888	1.9%
Mometasone	1,954,899	1.7%
Betamethasone	1,934,651	1.7%
Dexamethasone	1,353,240	1.2%
Fluocinonide	1,282,149	1.1%
Dexamethasone; Moxifloxacin	1,237,556	1.1%
Formoterol; Mometasone	1,218,644	1.1%
Betamethasone; Clotrimazole	1,007,453	0.9%
Neomycin; Polymyxin B; Hydrocortisone	949,592	0.8%
Dexamethasone; Neomycin; Polymyxin B	706,702	0.6%
Dexamethasone; Tobramycin	527,467	0.5%
Ciprofloxacin; Dexamethasone	420,670	0.4%
Azelastine; Fluticasone	369,392	0.3%
Desonide	295,846	0.3%
Flunisolide	103,220	0.1%
Fluocinolone; Hydroquinone; Tretinoin	100,587	0.1%

Total Prescriptions by Drug Over Time

Drug Class Prescribing Trends Over Time

Prescription data source: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) 2013-2020. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Rockville, MD. ClinCalc DrugStats Database version 2022.08. Read more about the ClinCalc DrugStats database.

All ClinCalc DrugStats figures and graphs on this page are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Updated Sep 12, 2021

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