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Table 1 Total number of single prescriptions, prolongations and switches per year

From: Consecutive antibiotic use in the outpatient setting: an extensive, longitudinal descriptive analysis of antibiotic dispensing data in the Netherlands

 

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

total

Percentagea

single prescriptions

4,019,710

4,421,525

4,716,882

4,834,467

4,739,070

4,552,601

4,668,455

4,546,357

4,383,551

40,882,618

95%

prolongations

88,138

94,759

99,839

104,351

104,148

98,446

100,340

97,282

95,199

882,502

3%

switches

141,214

153,475

158,186

164,756

164,307

159,535

165,845

154,862

152,567

1,414,747

2%

total

4,249,062

4,669,759

4,974,907

5,103,574

5,007,525

4,810,582

4,934,640

4,798,501

4,631,317

43,179,867

100%

  1. a Percentages were stable from 2006 to 2014