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Table 3 The total index of drug prescribing and its components in both private and public hospitals

From: Irrational prescription and its costs in neonatal surfactant therapy: public and private hospitals of Iran in 2018

The total index of drug prescribing and its components

Type of hospital

Status verification

Number (%)

P-value

Drug selection

Public

Verifiable

Rational

606 (92.37)

< 0.001

Irrational

50 (7.62)

Unverifiable

12

Private

Verifiable

Rational

103 (59.19)

Irrational

71 (40.80)

Unverifiable

4

a Drug dose

Public

Verifiable

Rational

261 (59.58)

0.304

Irrational

177 (40.40)

Unverifiable

230

Private

Verifiable

Rational

99 (64.28)

Irrational

55 (35.71)

Unverifiable

24

Drug time

Public

Verifiable

Rational

631 (98.59)

0.202

Irrational

9 (1.40)

Unverifiable

28

Private

Verifiable

Rational

173 (100)

Irrational

0 (0)

Unverifiable

5

The total index of drug prescribing

Public

Verifiable

Rational

223 (51.26)

< 0.001

Irrational

212 (48.73)

Unverifiable

233

Private

Verifiable

Rational

55 (34.37)

Irrational

105 (65.62)

Unverifiable

18

  1. Data are presented as number and number (%)
  2. a Considering the unverifiable items in the “Drug dose” Sig < 0.001