Table 2.
Anhui | Zhejiang | Shandong | Ningxia | Total | |||||||||||
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2009 | 2010 | 2009 | 2010 | 2009 | 2010 | 2009 | 2010 | 2009 | 2010 | ||||||
ANDPP | 4.17 | 4.25 | ↑ | 3.57 | 3.3 | ↓* | 3.37 | 3.28 | ↓ | 3.23 | 3.12 | ↓ | 3.64 | 3.46 | ↓* |
PED, % | 75.62 | 86.88 | ↑* | 61.31 | 83.29 | ↑* | 50.65 | 49.41 | ↓ | 55.35 | 60.59 | ↑ | 63.33 | 79.89 | ↑* |
ANAPP | 0.96 | 1 | ↑ | 0.79 | 0.75 | ↓* | 0.73 | 0.71 | ↓* | 0.72 | 0.81 | ↑* | 0.81 | 0.8 | ↓ |
PPA, % | 67.81 | 70.35 | ↑* | 59.92 | 55.52 | ↓* | 51.43 | 51.54 | ↑ | 53.15 | 60.38 | ↑* | 60.26 | 58.48 | ↓* |
PPI, % | 51.11 | 50.43 | ↓ | 43.74 | 40.35 | ↓* | 30.59 | 29.04 | ↓ | 28.36 | 27.97 | ↓ | 42.93 | 40.31 | ↓* |
PPC, % | 22.68 | 22.10 | ↓ | 11.91 | 9.22 | ↓* | 11.09 | 10.70 | ↓ | 1.65 | 2.30 | ↑ | 13.15 | 11.16 | ↓* |
Note: ↑ = 2010 − 2009 > 0; ↓ = 2010 − 2009 < 0.
ANDPP = average number of drugs per prescription; PED = percentage of drugs prescribed from the Essential Drug List; ANAPP = average number of antibiotics per prescription; PPA = percentage of prescriptions including an antibiotic; PPI = percentage of prescriptions including an injection; PPC = percentage of prescriptions including adrenal corticosteroid.
*= p < 0.05, p-value refers to t-test to compare means or exact test to compare proportion distributions between the two periods.