Table 2. Association between clinical exposure variables and inappropriate antibiotic treatment in patients without a clinical indication for antibiotics.

	Univariate Analysis			Multivariate Analysis
Variable	OR	(95% CI)	p-value	OR1	(95% CI)	p-value
HIV-positive	0.24	(0.18–0.32)	0.01	0.31	(0.20–0.45)	<0.001
Standard triage status	ref	ref	ref	ref	ref	ref
Priority triage status	0.93	(0.80–1.07)	0.32	0.93	(0.71–1.20)	0.55
Emergency triage status	0.63	(0.55–0.71)	<0.001	0.75	(0.59–0.96)	0.02
Age 15+	ref	ref	ref	ref	ref	ref
Age 5–14	1.07	(1.01–1.14)	0.03	1.11	(0.98–1.26)	0.09
Age less than 5	1.94	(1.86–2.03)	<0.001	1.96	(1.75–2.19)	<0.001

¹Adjusted for patient gender, facility type (private or public) visited, and month of patient visit.