Table 3.
Accountable justifications | Suggested alternatives | Peer comparisons | Clinician’s prior year prescribing rate (per 10 % increase) | |
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Odd ratios (95 % confidence intervals) for antibiotic prescribing | ||||
Antibiotic for non-antibiotic appropriate ARI diagnoses (primary outcome) | 0.98 (0.42–2.29) | 0.68 (0.29–1.58) | 0.45 (0.18–1.11) | 1.57 (1.15–2.13)* |
Antibiotic for potentially antibiotic appropriate ARI diagnoses | 0.77 (0.42–1.41) | 0.57 (0.31–1.05) | 1.14 (0.59–2.19) | 1.71 (1.23–2.36)* |
Antibiotic for other ARIs diagnoses or symptoms of interest | 1.29 (0.92–1.80) | 0.62 (0.44–0.89)** | 0.70 (0.48–1.02) | 1.40 (1.25–1.57)** |
Antibiotic for all three combined | 1.05 (0.80–1.39) | 0.72 (0.54–0.96)*** | 0.73 (0.53–0.995)**** | 1.64 (1.45–1.84)*** |
ARI acute respiratory infection
* p < .005
** p < .01
*** p < .001
**** p < 0.05