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