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