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Antibiotics prescribing indicators
| Medicine Prescribing Indicator | Value |
| Average number of medicines per prescription (Mean ± SD) | 4.0 ± 1.8 |
| Average number of antibiotics per encounter(Mean ± SD) | 1.3 ± 0.5 |
| Percentage of antibiotics prescribed by generic name (%) | 46.9 |
| Percentage of antibiotics prescribed from NHIS EML (%) | 82.9 |
| Percentage of antibiotics dispensed (%) | 72.4 |
SD = Standard Deviation
