Table 3.

Circumstances in which GPs reported they would consider and/or prescribe antibiotic treatment without microbiology result. Closed question with tick boxes (n = 465)

History, symptom, or sign	‘I would consider’, %	‘I have prescribed’, %
Contact with known outbreak	68	12
Acute severe symptoms in a previously healthy child	30	6
Severe abdominal pain	24	7
Patient systemically unwell	44	17
Suspected E. coli O157 or contact	45	5
Clinically suspect Campylobacter infection	39	25
Clinically suspect giardiasis	33	18
Clinically suspect Clostridium difficile infection	27	12
Clinically suspect antibiotic-associated diarrhoea	13	5
Clinically suspect norovirus	4	0
Never treat without a culture result	22	3