Outpatient prescription practices in rural township health centers in Sichuan Province, China

Table 4 Proportion of prescriptions with antibiotics, glucocorticoids and injections of the top 10 common diseases (%)

Rank	Diagnoses	Any antibiotics	Two or more antibiotics				Glucocorticoids	Glucocorticoids & antibiotics	Any injections	Two or more injections
			2	3	≥4	total				2	3	≥4	total
1	Upper respiratory tract infection	92.52	17.52	2.07	0.96	20.55	21.47	19.94	53.37	17.15	8.48	12.33	37.96
2	Gastroenteritis	86.20	19.63	4.60	1.84	26.07	5.28	4.94	38.78	8.98	6.53	13.06	28.57
3	The common cold	82.68	13.42	0.43	0.00	13.85	28.36	18.75	43.75	18.18	8.52	7.39	34.09
4	COPD	96.86	25.13	4.71	1.05	30.89	32.61	30.30	66.87	13.13	15.00	28.75	56.88
5	Female genital diseases	94.33	39.01	9.22	0.00	48.23	10.14	9.46	52.94	17.65	11.76	12.75	42.16
6	Pneumonia	95.12	26.83	6.10	2.44	35.37	30.86	27.91	74.24	10.61	10.61	42.42	63.64
7	Rheumatoid arthritis	72.86	12.86	4.29	0.00	17.15	42.86	25.00	32.08	5.66	3.77	11.32	20.75
8	Other digestive tract diseases	80.30	22.73	1.52	3.03	27.28	2.86	2.74	52.83	18.87	9.43	11.32	39.62
9	Dental diseases	91.94	17.74	8.06	1.61	27.41	23.73	20.63	44.68	17.02	10.64	12.77	40.43
10	Hypertension	43.75	2.08	4.17	0.00	6.25	5.00	3.28	27.91	2.33	2.33	16.28	20.94

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