Table 5.

Summary of emollient prescribing and eczema recording in DIN and GPRD birth cohorts in the first 5 years of life

	DIN		GPRD
	Number	%	Number	%
Children
Total number of children	40,183		76,310
Of which have at least one emollient prescription	16,799	41.8%	27,955	36.6%
Children with an emollient prescription
Of which also have an eczema diagnosis recorded in first 5 years of life	15,404	91.7%	22,444	80.3%
Of which also have an eczema diagnosis recorded that can be linked by problem number (and thus under the same chapter heading) in first 5 years of life (DIN only)	14,583	86.8%	_
Emollient prescriptions days
Total number of days with emollient prescriptions in first 5 years of life	85,870		123,413
Of which have an eczema diagnosis that appears on the same day	16,624	19.4%	41,647	32.7%
Of which an eczema diagnosis is made on the same day or can be linked to a previous one by problem number	74,217	86.4%	_
Of which have a chapter heading of eczema	64,461	75.1%	_
Of which have a chapter heading of eczema – excluding 20 practices (see methods n= 71,701)	59,688	83.3%	_