OpenPrescribing Measure: Antibiotic stewardship: prescribing of trimethoprim vs nitrofurantoin (numerator)
Metadata
- Coding system
- Pseudo BNF
- Coding system release
- unknown
- Organisation
- OpenPrescribing
- Codelist ID
- openprescribing/trimethoprim
- Version ID
- 6fec4699
- Number of codes included
- 9
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Description
Drugs used as the numerator of the following [OpenPrescribing](https://openprescribing.net) measures:
* [Antibiotic stewardship: prescribing of trimethoprim vs nitrofurantoin](https://openprescribing.net/measure/trimethoprim/)
Methodology
BNF search term based on OpenPrescribing measure definition
References
- OpenPrescribing measure: Antibiotic stewardship: prescribing of trimethoprim vs nitrofurantoin
- OpenPrescribing measure definition
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| code | term |
|---|---|
| 0501080W0AAADAD | Trimethoprim 100mg tablets |
| 0501080W0AAAEAE | Trimethoprim 200mg tablets |
| 0501080W0AAAIAI | Trimethoprim 50mg/5ml oral suspension sugar free |
| 0501080W0AAAMAM | Trimethoprim 200mg/5ml oral liquid |
| 0501080W0AAANAN | Trimethoprim 20mg/5ml oral liquid |
| 0501080W0BCACAI | Monotrim 50mg/5ml oral suspension |
| 0501080W0BGABAE | Trimopan 200mg tablets |
| 0501080W0BHAAAD | Trimogal 100mg tablets |
| 0501080W0BHABAE | Trimogal 200mg tablets |