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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Med. 2013 Apr;126(4):327–335.e12. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2012.10.027

Table 4.

Antibiotic prescriptions for non-pneumonia acute respiratory infections*

Study Group Control Group

Baseline period Intervention period P Baseline period Intervention period P
N = 15114 N = 7897 N = 7650 N = 4052
Antibiotic prescribed for acute respiratory infection 6460 (42.7) 2991 (37.9) <.0001 3045 (39.8) 1569 (38.7) 0.25
 Upper respiratory infection 1135 (21.6) 468 (15.6) 371 (12.8) 182 (14.2)
 Acute bronchitis 1773 (60.5) 737 (54.9) 625 (57.2) 289 (51.1)
 Pharyngitis 715 (29.9) 426 (31.5) 565 (40.6) 364 (37.3)
 Acute rhinosinusitis 2242 (66.5) 1060 (65.9) 999 (70.2) 524 (65.8)
 Acute otitis media 595 (50.6) 300 (51.2) 485 (57.5) 210 (48.5)
*

Denominator for individual conditions is the number of cases of each condition from Table 3.