Table 1.
Percentage of doctors prescribing antimicrobials for the URTIs.
| Antimicrobial | Pharyngitis (n = 81) | Tonsillitis (n = 89) | Common cold (n = 21) | Sinusitis (n = 87) | Otitis media (n = 91) |
| Penicillins | 70 (86.4) | 78 (87.6) | 19 (90.0) | 61 (70.1) | 70 (76.9) |
| Ampicillin, amoxicillin | 57 (70.3) | 58 (65.2) | 17 (80.0) | 25 (28.7) | 30 (33.0) |
| Co-amoxiclav | 37 (45.7) | 51 (57.3) | 4 (20.0) | 32 (52.9) | 55 (60.4) |
| Macrolides | 48 (59.3) | 53 (59.6) | 7 (35.0) | 46 (52.9) | 50 (54.9) |
| Erythromycin & derivatives | 46 (56.7) | 45 (50.5) | 6 (30.0) | 36 (41.3) | 35 (38.5) |
| Azithromycin | 22 (27.2) | 27 (30.3) | 2 (10.0) | 22 (25.3) | 27 (29.7) |
| Cephalosporins | 37 (45.7) | 44 (49.4) | 6 (30.0) | 38 (43.7) | 43 (47.3) |
| 1st generation | 9 (11.1) | 13 (14.6) | 2 (10.0) | 6 (6.9) | 8 (8.8) |
| 2nd generation | 33 (40.7) | 37 (41.6) | 4 (20.0) | 40 (46.0) | 43 (47.3) |
| Other | 14 (17.3) | 11 (12.4) | 4 (20.0) | 28 (32.2) | 13 (14.3) |
| Quinolones | 8 (9.9) | 8 (9.0) | 3 (14.3) | 12 (13.8) | 7 (7.7) |
| Tetracyclines | 1 (1.2) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (4.8) | 13 (14.9) | 0 (0.0) |
* Doctors prescribed more than one antimicrobial for each URTI