Table 5.
Assessment of the prescriptions for children with mild/moderate CAP*
|
Category |
Drug selection |
Dosage form |
Dose |
Frequency |
Final result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
| A |
195 (43.4) |
171 (87.7) |
102 (59.6) |
99 (97.1) |
99 (22.1) |
| IA |
254 (56.6) |
24 (12.3)a |
(see below) |
3 (2.9) |
350 (78.0) |
| OPD |
- |
- |
1 (0.6) |
- |
- |
| UPD |
- |
- |
68 (39.8) |
- |
- |
| NAI |
95 |
95 |
95 |
95 |
95 |
| Total assessable |
449 |
195 |
171 |
102 |
449 |
| Total | 544 | 290 | 266 | 197 | 544 |
A- Appropriate, IA- Inappropriate, NAI- No assessable guideline information, OPD- Overprescribed dose, UPD- Underprescribed dose.
aIncludes the number of appropriately selected drugs from the previous column.
*If the first indicator was “inappropriate”, then the prescription item classification was “inappropriate” and this drug was excluded from further analysis and would not appear in the second indicator.