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

Table 6 Assessment of the prescriptions for adults with mild/moderate CAP*

Category	Drug selection	Dosage form	Dose	Frequency	Final result
Category	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)
A	235 (42.3)	192 (81.7)	120 (62.5)	61 (50.8)	61 (11.0)
IA	321 (57.7)	43 (18.3)^a	-	59 (49.2)	495 (89.0)
OPD	-	-	18 (9.4)	-	-
UPD	-	-	54 (28.1)	-	-
Total	556	235	192	120	556

A- Appropriate, IA- Inappropriate, OPD- Overprescribed dose, UPD- Underprescribed dose.
^aIncludes the number of appropriately selected drugs in inappropriate dosage forms only.
^*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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