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Table 4 Total index of the prescribing based on the selected provinces

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

Selected province

Total surfactant prescription

Number of reviewed prescriptions

Drug selection + Drug dose + Prescription time

Verifiable prescriptions a

Number (%)

Unverifiable prescriptions

Tehran

(13.00)1468

232 (27.42)

190 (81.89)

42 (18.10)

The total index of the rational prescribing

62 (32.63)

The total index of the irrational prescribing

128 (67.36)

Fars

(7.5)857

133 (15.72)

104 (78.19)

29 (21.80)

The total index of the rational prescription

53 (50.96)

The total index of the irrational prescribing

51 (49.03)

East Azerbaijan

(8.48)957

197 (23.28)

138 (70.05)

59 (29.94)

The total index of the rational prescribing

77 (55.79)

The total index of the irrational prescribing

61 (44.20)

Ahvaz

(7.31)825

167 (19.73)

76 (45.50)

91 (54.49)

The total index of the rational prescribing

46 (60.53)

The total index of the irrational prescribing

30 (39.47)

Razavi Khorasan

(4.32)488

117 (13.82)

87 (74.35)

30 (25.64)

The total index of the rational prescribing

40 (45.97)

The total index of the irrational prescribing

47 (54.02)

Total b in these five province

4595(40.61)

846(100)

595 (70.33)

251 (29.66)

The total index of the rational prescribing

278(46.72)

The total index of the irrational prescribing

317(53.27)

  1. a Data are presented as number (%) and the percentages written in column 5 are based on the verifiable prescriptions
  2. b Total number of surfactant prescriptions in Iran was calculated as 11,284