Outpatient prescription rate dropped by 2.4 percentage points

The outpatient prescription rate of medical institutions in 2002 stood at 64.3 percent, down 2.4 percentage points from a year earlier, according to statistics released by the Health Insurance Review Agency on September 3.

Clinics issued the highest prescriptions for outpatients with 81.1 percent, followed by hospitals with 62.0%, general hospitals with 58.5 percent, and tertiary hospitals w...