Table 5.
Ref. | Prescribed by GP | Prescribed by unqualified practitioner | Provided at private clinic | Provider dispenser | Patient prefers Injection | Practitioner prefers injection | Practitioner says patient demand it |
India | |||||||
Rajasekaran et al[37] | 59% | 37.6% | 40% | 87.2% | |||
IPEN study group[40] | 42.6% | 57.5% | 77%1/34%2 | 93.5% | 10.2% | 70.6%3 | 88.6% |
Murhekar et al[36] | 50.8% | 54.8% | |||||
Kotwal et al[34] | 13.8% | 58.8% | 30% | ||||
Anand et al[38] | 18% | ||||||
Lakshman et al[35] | 65% | ||||||
Kermode et al[67] | 8% | 35% | |||||
Kermode et al[41] | 55% (patients) | 24.8% (patients) | 7.7% (patients) | 9.3% (relatives) | |||
Pandit et al[42] | 57% | 55% | 17% | ||||
Garapati et al[44] | 48.7% | ||||||
Bendale et al[69] | 8.16% | 35% | 65% | ||||
Pakistan | |||||||
Raglow et al[22] | 94% | 94% | |||||
Janjua et al[23] | 63% | 28% | 69% | 76% | 16% | ||
Janjua et al[26] | 63% | 28% | 63% | 32% | |||
Janjua et al[23] | |||||||
Janjua et al[27] | 52% | 16% | |||||
Yousafzai et al[25] | 7.9% | 8.8% | 71% | ||||
Khan et al[6] | 44% | ||||||
Bangladesh | |||||||
Gibney et al[71] | |||||||
Shill et al[51] | 50% | ||||||
Sri Lanka | |||||||
Rannan-Eliya et al[59] | |||||||
Nepal | |||||||
Gyawali et al[54] | 92.6% | ||||||
Gyawali et al[52] | 12.6% | 21.4% | 5% |
Therapeutic;
Preventive injections;
Physician took prescription decision/in 15% cases practitioner promoted injection prescription.