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Table 1 Summary of results obtained in eight selected health centers in Fafen Zone Eastern Ethiopia from September 2013 to September 2014. (n = 636 encounters)

From: Assessment of medicines use pattern using World Health Organization’s Prescribing, Patient Care and Health facility indicators in selected health facilities in eastern Ethiopia

Prescribing indicators assessed

Total drugs/encounters

Average/percent

Standard derived or ideal

Drugs per encounter

1426

2.2

(1.6–1.8)

Encounter with antibiotics

525

82.5 %

(20.0–26.8 %)

Encounters with injection

71

11.2 %

(13.4–24.1 %)

Drugs prescribed by generic name

1385

97 %

100 %

Drugs from essential drug list

1311

92 %

100 %