Table 6.
Assessment of the prescriptions for adults with mild/moderate CAP*
| Category |
Drug selection |
Dosage form |
Dose |
Frequency |
Final result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
| A |
235 (42.3) |
192 (81.7) |
120 (62.5) |
61 (50.8) |
61 (11.0) |
| IA |
321 (57.7) |
43 (18.3)a |
- |
59 (49.2) |
495 (89.0) |
| OPD |
- |
- |
18 (9.4) |
- |
- |
| UPD |
- |
- |
54 (28.1) |
- |
- |
| Total | 556 | 235 | 192 | 120 | 556 |
A- Appropriate, IA- Inappropriate, OPD- Overprescribed dose, UPD- Underprescribed dose.
aIncludes the number of appropriately selected drugs in inappropriate dosage forms only.
*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.