Table 4 Intervals between lithium requests stratified by initial lithium concentrations
Interval between requests | Lithium concentration (mmol/L)a | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
< 0.1 | 0.1–0.39 | 0.4–0.59 | 0.6–0.79 | 0.8–0.99 | 1.0–1.39 | > 1.4 | |
0–1 days | 2.6% | 2.2% | 1.0% | 1.0% | 1.6% | 9.8% | 60.5% |
2–7 days | 14.1% | 16.2% | 6.5% | 4.3% | 7.4% | 25.6% | 26.6% |
8–76 days (weeks 2 to 10) | 45.6% | 46.4% | 30.4% | 27.8% | 33.0% | 46.0% | 9.9% |
77–98 days (weeks 11 to 13) | 7.6% | 13.1% | 24.5% | 27.0% | 23.0% | 6.1% | 0.2% |
99–160 days (weeks 14 to 22) | 11.7% | 12.6% | 22.0% | 23.7% | 21.1% | 7.3% | 1.3% |
161–189 days (weeks 23 to 26) | 3.4% | 2.7% | 5.2% | 5.9% | 4.9% | 1.5% | 0.4% |
190–365 (weeks 27 to 51) | 8.8% | 5.0% | 8.5% | 8.6% | 7.5% | 2.9% | 0.6% |
> 365 (weeks 52 and above) | 6.1% | 1.7% | 2.0% | 1.8% | 1.5% | 0.8% | 0.4% |
Total | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% |