Table I.
Characteristics of patients included.
| Country | No. of patients (%) | No. of patients with RTI (% rhinosinusitis) | No. of women (%) | Median age (iqr) | No. of patients with fever (%) | Median no. of days with symptoms (iqr) | No. of patients with < 5 days of symptoms (%) | No. of patients prescribed antibiotics (%) |
| Argentina | 105 (9.1) | 4374 (2.4) | 70 (66.7) | 25 (14–35) | 50 (47.6) | 4 (2–5) | 80 (77.7) | 90 (85.7) |
| Denmark | 272 (23.7) | 3904 (7.0) | 187 (68.8) | 41 (32–55) | 83 (30.5) | 7 (4–12) | 104 (39.3) | 203 (74.6) |
| Lithuania | 74 (6.4) | 2706 (2.7) | 29 (39.2) | 19 (12–35) | 26 (35.1) | 5 (3–7) | 43 (60.6) | 69 (93.2) |
| Russia | 134 (11.7) | 3685 (3.6) | 77 (57.5) | 24 (6–42) | 49 (36.6) | 3 (2–5) | 108 (83.1) | 81 (60.5) |
| Spain | 445 (38.7) | 16751(2.7) | 277 (62.3) | 36 (28–48) | 150 (33.7) | 5 (3–9) | 227 (52.1) | 388 (87.2) |
| Sweden | 120 (10.4) | 1853 (6.5) | 87 (72.5) | 45 (33–57) | 34 (28.3) | 10 (7–14) | 18 (15.7) | 105 (87.5) |
| Total | 1150 (100) | 33273 (3.5) | 727 (63.2) | 35 (25–48) | 392 (34.1) | 5 (3–10) | 580 (51.8) | 936 (81.4) |