Table 1

Response rates by country and proportions of the patients prescribed desferrioxamine from each country

Country
CY
EG
GR
HK
IN
IR
IT
JO
TA
US
Total

Membership
636
2,801
922
334
823
6,810
840
360
302
310
14,138

Questionnaires dispatched
300
300
200
300
300
300
300
300
300
300
2,900
Questionnaires completed
275
199
118
159
235
215
147
232
231
77
1,888
Response rate (%)
92
66
59
53
78
72
49
77
77
26
65
Desferrioxamine use, N (%)
267 (97)
120 (60)
112 (95)
147 (93)
128 (55)
200 (93)
132 (90)
185 (80)
212 (92)
70 (91)
1573 (83)

Cyprus (CY), Egypt (EG), Greece (GR), Hong Kong (HK), India (IN), Iran (IR), Italy (IT), Jordan (JO), Taiwan (TA), United States (US)

Ward et al. BMC Clinical Pharmacology 2002 2:3   doi:10.1186/1472-6904-2-3