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Table 6 Trends of multidrug combinations prescribed for outpatients with migraine between 2018 and 2022

From: Trends and prescribing patterns of antimigraine medicines in nine major cities in China from 2018 to 2022: a retrospective prescription analysis

 

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

Total

P1

P2

Outpatients receiving therapeutic drugs*

1748

1916

1571

1867

2104

9206

–

–

 Monotherapy

1688 (96.57)

1828 (95.41)

1504 (95.74)

1786 (95.66)

2043 (97.10)

8849 (96.12)

0.462

0.250

 Combined therapy

60 (3.43)

88 (4.59)

67 (4.26)

81 (4.34)

61 (2.90)

357 (3.88)

1.000

0.250

Outpatients receiving preventive drugs

3337

3749

3009

3839

3555

17,494

–

–

 Monotherapy

2757 (82.62)

3069 (81.86)

2460 (81.75)

3108 (80.96)

2841 (79.92)

14,235 (81.37)

0.807

0.002

 Combined therapy

580 (17.38)

680 (18.13)

549 (18.24)

731 (19.04)

714 (20.08)

3259 (18.63)

0.462

0.002

  1. * Outpatients receiving antiemetics were not included. The number of outpatients receiving therapeutic drugs and the number of outpatients receiving preventive drugs for each year are the denominators of monotherapy and combined therapy in that column, respectively