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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 19.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Inf J. 2011 Jul;45(4):421–430. doi: 10.1177/009286151104500404

TABLE 9.

Details of Reasons for Change for Medications

Total Field Type Additional
Information
(%)
Entry Error
(%)
Other
(%)
All 361 33.2 50.7 16.1
Date 64 Date 64.1 34.4 1.6
Ongoing 126 Choice 16.7 50.0 33.3
Indication 31 Text 54.8 45.2 0.0
Trade name 25 Text 60.0 40.0 0.0
Dose 22 Number 27.3 50.0 22.7
Frequency 7 Choice 57.1 42.9 0.0
Othera 9 0.0 22.2 77.8
Multipleb 77 20.8 75.3 3.9
a

For completeness, miscellaneous changes were combined into the “Other” category.

b

Multiple reasons for changes of a single page.