For interventional therapy, a sufficiently high dose of prednisone or equivalent ... is marketed as a 20 mg oral tablet to be administered twice-daily 1 hour before or 2 hours after meals.

[1] The mainstay of treatment is oral glucocorticoids (GC), with the recent BSR-BHPR guidelines suggesting an initial prednisone dose comprised between 15 and 20 ... 12.5 mg prednisone daily ...

Pericarditis recurrence in lupus is more likely — and has a dose-dependent relationship — with oral prednisone treatment, ...