Table 3.

Perceived Severity of the Case and Likelihood of Recovery without Antibiotics^a

Perceptions	N (%)					p-value
Severity- Resident worse than usual	Not at all	A little	Moderately	A great deal	Don’t know	0.016b
Provider, n=30c	5 (17)	14 (47)	9 (30)	0 (0)	2 (7)
Resident, n=24	5 (21)	6 (25)	6 (25)	7 (29)	0 (0)
Family, n=13	3 (23)	4 (31)	4 (31)	2 (15)	0 (0)
Staff, n=18	4 (22)	5 (28)	6 (33)	3 (17)	0 (0)
Likelihood of recoveryd	Not at all	A little	Moderately	Very	Don’t know	0.05e
Provider, n=30	12 (40)	13 (43)	3 (10)	0 (0)	2 (7)
Resident, n=24	18 (75)	2 (8)	1 (4)	0 (0)	3 (13)
Family, n=13	9 (69)	0 (0)	3 (23)	0 (0)	1 (8)
Staff, n=18	14 (78)	1 (6)	3 (17)	0 (0)	0 (0)

^aIncludes only those respondents who were aware of the resident’s presumed infection at the time of antibiotic prescribing.

^bBased on related-samples Kendall’s coefficient of concordance exact tests using only the provider, resident and staff responses because of the few family members responses (p = .028 when including family responses); no post hoc pairwise adjusted comparisons were < .05.

^cProvider options were: not sick, slightly, moderately, severely, and moribund; no cases rated as either severely sick or moribund.

^dRated as how likely the resident would have gotten well in a few days without an antibiotic.

^eBased on related-samples Cochran’s Q applied to dichotomized responses (not at all vs. a little to very) using only the provider, resident and staff responses because of the few family members responses (p =0.29 when family member responses included); the post hoc pairwise comparison of provider responses to resident responses was statistically significant (adjusted p= 0.043).