Drugs most frequently prescribed and the top three diagnoses for which they were given
| Total number of encounters with the particular drug (% of all prescribing encounters) | Total number of diagnoses the drug was given for | Most common diagnoses for given drug (% of diagnoses with given drug) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medication | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | ||
| Paracetamol | 2107 (88.8) | 2653 | Diarrhoea (13.9) | Cough and cold (13.0) | Pneumonia (8.0) |
| Co-trimoxazole | 954 (40.2) | 1213 | Pneumonia (15.6) | Cough and cold (11.6) | Skin infection (10.6) |
| Oral rehydration salts | 512 (21.6) | 712 | Diarrhoea (55.0) | Diarrhoea and Dehydration (3.4) | Malaria (2.5) |
| Multiple vitamin | 442 (18.6) | 577 | Cough and cold (22.2) | Diarrhoea (13.0) | Fever (13.0) |
| Amoxicillin | 280 (11.8) | 362 | Pneumonia (17.7) | Cough and cold (14.1) | Fever (8.6) |
| Metronidazole | 204 (8.6) | 283 | Diarrhoea (39.2) | Fever (9.2) | Dysentery (8.8) |
| Coartem | 171 (7.2) | 217 | Malaria (73.7) | Fever (5.1) | Diarrhoea (4.6) |
Patients with single and multiple diagnoses were used and all diagnoses given were included to calculate percentages.