Table 3

Frequencies of enquiry types for paracetamol and ‘rest of calls’ and enquiry types by age groups for paracetamol calls

Paracetamol calls vs ‘rest of calls’
Enquiry type	Paracetamol calls (%) n=6367		‘Rest of calls’ (%) n=116 850		p Value*
Efficacy	24.9		22.8		<0.001
Interaction†	21.5		14.8		<0.001
Other safety†	20.6		32.6		<0.001
Administration	15.5		11.0		<0.001
Pregnancy/lactation†	13.7		8.3		<0.001
Logistics	3.3		5.8		<0.001
Miscellaneous	0.5		4.4		<0.001
Missing	0		0.3
Paracetamol calls by age groups (years) (n=6367)
Enquiry type	<1 (%)	1–4 (%)	5–24 (%)	25–44 (%)	45–64 (%)	65+ (%)
Efficacy	15.8	24.1	19.6	17.7	31.9	31.3
Interaction	10.5	28.2	29.3	22.2	21.7	20.0
Other safety	9.3	9.5	15.3	17.2	27.4	27.7
Administration	17.5	29.4	24.6	9.0	13.8	14.7
Pregnancy/lactation	45.3	7.9	8.3	31.6	0.2	0.4
Logistics	1.5	0.7	2.9	1.7	4.3	5.4
Miscellaneous	0.2	0.2	0	0.6	0.6	0.5

*All statistical comparisons between paracetamol-related calls and ‘rest of calls’ used χ² analyses.
†Enquiry types related to safety.