Research Article
Pattern and Appropriateness of Medicines Prescribed to Outpatients at a University Hospital in Northwestern Ethiopia
Table 2
The ten most frequently prescribed medicines at the outpatient department of GURH, 2016.
| Rank | Name of medicine | Frequency (%) |
| | Amoxicillin | 47 (8.0) | | Omeprazole | 46 (7.8) | | Metronidazole | 29 (4.9) | | Doxycycline | 24 (4.1) | | Amoxicillin + clavulanic acid | 21 (3.6) | | Ciprofloxacin | 21 (3.6) | | Insulin | 21 (3.6) | | Tramadol | 20 (3.4) | | Diclofenac | 18 (3.1) | | Norfloxacin | 15 (2.6) |
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