Weighted Percentage Distributions of Medications Prescribed or Administered During Office Visits, by Category, NAMCS Data, 1997–2000
| Visit Type | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medications Category | FP-WR* | OP-WR | OccMed-WR | FP-NWR |
| NAMCS = National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey; FP-WR = visit to family practice physician for work-related condition; OP-WR = visit to non–family practice physician for work-related condition; OccMed-WR = visits to occupational medicine physician for work-related condition; FP-NWR = visit to family practice physician for non–work-related condition. | ||||
| * Reference category for comparison. | ||||
| † P <.05 | ||||
| ‡ P <.01 | ||||
| § P <.001 | ||||
| Anesthetics | 2.0 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 0.6‡ |
| Antimicrobials | 4.3 | 3.5 | 1.1 | 13.2§ |
| Hematologic agents | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.6† |
| Cardiovascular-renal drugs | 6.4 | 3.4† | 0.0‡ | 16.2§ |
| Central nervous system drugs | 8.4 | 12.5‡ | 2.3‡ | 8.1 |
| Contrast media/radiopharmaceuticals | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Gastrointestinal agents | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 4.5§ |
| Metabolic agents/nutrients | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 5.8§ |
| Hormones/hormonal mechanisms | 4.8 | 4.4 | 1.7 | 10.4§ |
| Immunologics | 1.5 | 1.3 | 5.2† | 3.5† |
| Skin/mucous membrane agents | 5.0 | 5.2 | 9.1 | 4.3 |
| Neurologic drugs | 11.4 | 10.6 | 12.0 | 2.1§ |
| Oncolytics | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Ophthalmics | 0.4 | 2.4† | 4.0‡ | 0.7 |
| Otologics | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.9 |
| Analgesics | 48.6 | 47.1 | 60.8‡ | 11.8§ |
| Antiparasitics | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Respiratory tract agents | 2.6 | 3.5 | 1.8 | 12.9§ |
| Unclassified/miscellaneous | 1.9 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 2.7 |
| Homeopathic products | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| Total no. prescribed/ordered | 317 | 1,347 | 122 | 17,883 |