Table 5. The effect of antibiotic prescription on patients’ recovery and satisfaction.

Patients’ recovery and satisfaction	Antibiotics prescription		P value
	Yes	No
Patients' self-estimated overall recovery days	6.1±1.4	8.3±0.4	0.125
Days of symptom recovery (mean±s.e.)
All symptom recovery	8.1±1.5	9.9±0.4	0.237
Cough recovery	7.1±1.5	9.1±0.4	0.195
Sputum recovery	7.3±1.5	8.5±0.4	0.445
Patient’s satisfaction (odds ratio, 95% CI)	2.766 (1.288, 3.938)	0.009

Abbreviation: CI, confidence interval.

Data were present as mean±s.e. for adjusted means of recovery days, and odds ratio (95%CI) for patient satisfaction. The analyses were conducted by general linear models with adjustment of age, gender, season, years of education, smoking, days of sickness before consult, severity score and comorbidities. Patient satisfaction was scored 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 for very unsatisfactory, unsatisfactory, moderate, satisfactory and very satisfactory, respectively.