Research Article
Core Prescribing Indicators and the Most Commonly Prescribed Medicines in a Tertiary Health Care Setting in a Developing Country
Table 4
Comparison of core prescribing indictors in different countries.
| | Country (ref) | Core prescribing indictors (WHO recommended value) | | Type of survey, year | Average medicines per encounter (1.6–1.8) | Encounters with an antibiotic (20–26.8) (%) | Encounters with an injection (13.4–24.1) (%) | Medicines prescribed in generic name (100%) | Medicines prescribed from EML (100%) |
| | Sri Lanka∗ | TCH, 2015 | 4.8 | 26.4 | 30.1 | 90.1% | 91.1 | | Africa | Region (PC), 2006–2015 | 3.5 | 49.0 | 24.8 | 70.4% | 88.9% | | Bangladesh | TCH, 2010 | 3.6 | 48.0 | 1.3 | 1.3% | 43.2% | | Brazil | National, 2015 | 2.4 | 5.8 | 6.0 | NR | 45.1% | | China | Provincial (PC), 2009–2010 | 3.2 | 50.9 | 24.4 | NR | 68.3% | | India | TCH, 2018# | 2.9 | 19.7 | 2.2 | 10.0% | 22.6% | | Nepal | TCH, 2016–2017 | 5.8 | 64.1 | 71.0 | 16.9% | 47.6% | | Pakistan | TCH, 2014–2015 | 2.8 | 51.5 | 0 | 56.6% | 98.8% | | UAE | TCH, 2012 | 2.5 | 9.8 | 3.1 | 100% | 100% |
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∗Present study; #year of publication; EML, essential medicines list; NR, not reported; PC, primary care; TCH, tertiary care hospital.
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