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Table 4 Medication prescription variability in the most common CPRD prescription instructions

From: Modelling and extraction of variability in free-text medication prescriptions from an anonymised primary care electronic medical record research database

Prescriptions with

Number of such prescriptions (out of 56,114)

Prescriptions percentage

all medication elements as “?”

406

0.7 %

at least one element as “?”

11,696

20.8 %

dn_min ≠ dn_max

6,278

11.1 %

df_min ≠ df_max

10,249

18.2 %

di_min ≠ di_max

55

0.1 %

no dose units

36,111

65.4 %

  1. dn_min is dose number (minimum), dn_max is dose number (maximum), df_min is dose frequency (minimum), df_max is dose frequency (maximum), di_min is dose interval (minimum), di_max is dose interval (maximum)