Table 2.
Characteristics of prescriptions for prednisone to patients also prescribed budesonide or beclomethasone diproprionate
|
Budesonide
|
Beclomethasone
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No (%) of patients | Mean dose (μg) | No (%) of patients | Mean dose (μg) | ||
| All patients | |||||
| No of patients | 1532 | 4295 | |||
| No of prednisone prescriptions: | |||||
| 0 | 1231 (80.4) | 907 | 3533 (82.3) | 582 | |
| 1 | 163 (10.6) | 1089 | 459 (10.7) | 754 | |
| 2 | 65 (4.2) | 1273 | 140 (3.3) | 935 | |
| 3 | 25 (1.6) | 1609 | 67 (1.6) | 979 | |
| ⩾4 | 48 (3.1) | 1728 | 96 (2.2) | 1335 | |
| Patients ⩽35 years old | |||||
| No of patients | 760 | 2414 | |||
| No of prednisone prescriptions | |||||
| 0 | 649 (85.4) | 757 | 2114 (87.6) | 465 | |
| 1 | 76 (10.0) | 894 | 229 (9.5) | 602 | |
| 2 | 23 (3.0) | 1051 | 45 (1.9) | 717 | |
| 3 | 9 (1.2) | 1063 | 18 (0.7) | 781 | |
| ⩾4 | 3 (0.4) | 1067 | 8 (0.3) | 1214 | |