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. 2019 Nov 6;19:807. doi: 10.1186/s12913-019-4656-2

Table 3.

Prescribing indicators of the encounters

Prescribing indicators assessed Total medicines/encounters Median (interquartile range)/percentage
Median number of medicines per encounter 16,067 2.0 (1.0, 2.0)
Percentage of encounters with antibiotics prescribed 1285 15.1%
Percentage of encounters with injections prescribed 312 3.7%
Percentage of medicines prescribed by generic name 15,577 97.0%
Percentage of medicines from EML 9343 58.2%
Percentage of encounters with TCPMs prescribed 4459 52.5%
Median duration of consultation time (minutes) 8273 6.0 (4.0, 10.0)

Abbreviation: EML Essential medicine list, TCPM Traditional Chinese patent medicine