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Categories of dose adjustment recommendations for the 218 included drugs according to the four sources of information in this study.
| Category | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DRUGDEX® | UpToDate® | Medscape® | NTF * | |
| Contraindicated (CI) | 2 | 3 | - | 4 |
| Numerical (N) | 64 | 61 | 50 | 42 |
| Non-numerical (NN) | 15 | 44 | 13 | 34 |
| Not-required (NR) | 38 | 25 | 8 | - |
| No advice (NA) | 96 | 78 | 127 | 4 |
| Missing | 3 | 7 | 20 | 134 |
| Total drugs | 218 | 218 | 218 | 218 |
* National Therapeutic Formulary.
