An evaluation of prescribing practices for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in Mongolia

Table 5 Assessment of the prescriptions for children with mild/moderate CAP*

Category	Drug selection	Dosage form	Dose	Frequency	Final result
	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)
A	195 (43.4)	171 (87.7)	102 (59.6)	99 (97.1)	99 (22.1)
IA	254 (56.6)	24 (12.3)^a	(see below)	3 (2.9)	350 (78.0)
OPD	-	-	1 (0.6)	-	-
UPD	-	-	68 (39.8)	-	-
NAI	95	95	95	95	95
Total assessable	449	195	171	102	449
Total	544	290	266	197	544

A- Appropriate, IA- Inappropriate, NAI- No assessable guideline information, OPD- Overprescribed dose, UPD- Underprescribed dose.
^aIncludes the number of appropriately selected drugs from the previous column.
^*If the first indicator was “inappropriate”, then the prescription item classification was “inappropriate” and this drug was excluded from further analysis and would not appear in the second indicator.

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