Table 2.
Changes in the requirement of prescription to purchase the antibiotics of the web pages analyzed in 2020 (2) and in 2021.
| Year 2021 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prescription required | Prescription not required | Mixed | Not explained | |||||||
| E: n = 37 | S: n = 18 | E: n = 76 | S: n = 48 | E: n = 2 | S: n = 1 | E: n = 7 | S: n = 6 | |||
| Year 2020 | Prescription required | E: n = 33 | 27 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| S: n = 15 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||||||
| Prescription not required | E: n = 75 | 5 | 67 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| S: n = 51 | 3 | 45 | 0 | 3 | ||||||
| Mixed | E: n = 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| S: n = 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| Not explained | E: n = 9 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | |||||
| S: n = 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Shaded cells indicate no changes, whereas unshaded cells indicate changes.
E, search in English; S, search in Spanish; Mixed, prescription required for some antibiotics and prescription not required for others.