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Table 8 Prescribing pattern indicators with respect to WHO references

From: Antibiotics prescribing practice among patients with urinary tract infection at outpatient department, the case of Dilchora referral hospital, Eastern Ethiopia: an institutional retrospective cross-sectional study

Parameter

Category

Values

Total drugs

Antibiotics

WHO reference

Who Indicators

The average number of drugs per prescription

968/600 = 1.6

767/600 = 1.278

1.60–1.99

Percentage of encounters with an injection prescribed

93/600 = 15.5%

13.4–24.1

Percentage of encounters with antibiotics

767/600 = 127.83%

167/600 = 27.83%

20–26.80

Percentage of drugs prescribed by generic name

873/968 = 90.19%

678/767 = 88.40%

100

Percentage of drugs from Essential Drug List/EDL

100%

100%

100