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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmology. 2014 Jan 28;121(6):1269–1273. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2013.12.006

Table 2.

Retinal detachment procedures following first prescription

Fluoroquinolone (n=38,046) Macrolide (n=48,074) β-lactam (n=69,079)
Repair n % (95% CI) n % (95% CI) n % (95% CI) p-valuea
≤ 7 days 0 0% (0–0.01%) 1 0.002% (0–0.01%) 0 0% (0–0.01%) 0.33
≤ 30 days 1 0.002% (0–0.01%) 1 0.002% (0–0.01%) 1 0.001% (0–0.01%) 0.91
≤ 90 days 3 0.008% (0–0.02%) 2 0.004% (0–0.02%) 5 0.007% (0–0.02%) 0.75
≤ 365 days 12 0.03% (0.01–0.06%) 8 0.02% (0.01–0.03%) 24 0.03% (0.02–0.05%) 0.17
Prophylaxis
≤ 7 days 1 0.002% (0–0.01%) 0 0% (0–0.01%) 0 0% (0–0.01%) 0.21
≤ 30 days 1 0.002% (0–0.01%) 3 0.006% (0–0.02%) 1 0.001% (0–0.01%) 0.35
≤ 90 days 1 0.002% (0–0.01%) 3 0.006% (0–0.02%) 7 0.01% (0–0.02%) 0.36
≤ 365 days 5 0.01% (0–0.03%) 10 0.02% (0.01–0.04%) 17 0.02% (0.01–0.04%) 0.46

CI = confidence interval

a

unadjusted p-value