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. 2012 Feb 3;2(1):e000398. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2011-000398

Table 3.

Top five highest incident emergent codes and categories from constant comparison analysis (all groups combined; total codes n=1035)

Code-category Five most frequent code topics Frequency
General impressions on rising resistance 401
Patient non-compliance 15
Antibiotics development 13
Hospital-specific issues, eg, hygiene, laboratories 11
Antibiotic dosing 10
Urinary tract infections 10
Outpatient-specific influences on prescribing 251
Patient history 18
Patient demand 18
Physician experience 14
Patient self-education 11
Patient compliance 11
Sources of information on antibiotics 234
Practice guidelines 10
Continuing medical education 8
Specialty journals 8
Internet 8
Quality of conferences 7
Physician-oriented interventions 84
Surveillance 9
Laboratory feedback 7
Information on local resistance situation 7
Hospital 4
Hygiene 4
Hospital-specific influences on prescribing 65
Up-to-date internal guidelines 4
Laboratory/microbiologists exchange 4
Specificity of internal guidelines 4
Experience with infectious diseases 3
Problematic diagnoses 3