Research Article
Assessment of Drug Prescription Pattern in Mekelle General Hospital, Mekelle, Ethiopia, Using World Health Organization Prescribing Indicators
Table 2
The most common prescribed drug classes in MGH, 2016.
| | Prescribing indicators | Value (%) |
| | Encounter with antibiotic | 225 (58.6%) | | Encounter with analgesics and antipyretics | 164 (42.7) | | Encounters with antacid and antiulcer | 133 (34.6) | | Encounter with narcotic and psychotropic | 37 (9.6) | | Encounter with vitamins and minerals | 34 (8.85) | | Encounters with cardiovascular including antihypertensive | 27 (7.03) | | Encounter with anthelmintic | 20 (5.2) | | Encounter with steroid and hormonal preparations | 17 (4.4) | | Encounter with antitussive (cough suppressant) | 16 (4.2) | | Encounter with antihistamine | 15 (3.9) |
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