Prescribing patterns accorded with prevailing guidelines in the majority of patients. Nonetheless, there was nonformulary prescribing in 10% of patients, and this could not be explained by clinical or laboratory measures of disease severity. Further work is needed to explore the factors that contribute to nonformulary prescribing in this group of patients.
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