Table 2.

Indications for prescriptions of anthroposophic medicinal products, most frequent diagnosis chapters of the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision

Chapter	Code	Text	All patients		Adults (18–101 years)		Children (0–17 years)
			N	%	N	%	N	%
X	J00–J99	Diseases of the respiratory system	74,441	24.5	13,314	11.6	61,127	32.4
XVIII	R00–R99	Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified	24,899	8.2	6414	5.6	18,485	9.8
I	A00–B99	Certain infectious and parasitic diseases	22,529	7.4	3840	3.3	18,689	9.9
XII	L00–L99	Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue	19,643	6.5	6021	5.2	13,622	7.2
V	F00–F99	Mental and behavioural disorders	18,321	6.0	9749	8.5	8572	4.5
XI	K00–K93	Diseases of the digestive system	17,947	5.9	7867	6.8	10,080	5.3
XX	V01–Y98	External causes of morbidity and mortality	17,405	5.7	2610	2.3	14,795	7.8
XIII	M00–M99	Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue	15,569	5.1	13,404	11.6	2165	1.1
IV	E00–E90	Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases	13,718	4.5	8943	7.8	4775	2.5
II	C00–D48	Neoplasms	13,393	4.4	12,703	11.0	690	0.4
IX	I00–I99	Diseases of the circulatory system	13,006	4.3	11,904	10.3	1102	0.6
VIII	H60–H95	Diseases of the ear and mastoid process	12,864	4.2	1263	1.1	11,601	6.1
XIV	N00–N99	Diseases of the genitourinary system	8687	2.9	5077	4.4	3610	1.9
XIX	S00–T98	Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes	8582	2.8	3396	3.0	5186	2.7
VII	H00–H59	Diseases of the eye and adnexa	7780	2.6	1735	1.5	6045	3.2
VI	G00–G99	Diseases of the nervous system	6236	2.1	4167	3.6	2069	1.1
Other chapters (with < 2% in each age group)			8708	2.9	2650	2.3	6055	3.2
Total evaluable diagnoses			303,725	100.0	115,057	100.0	188,668	100.0