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. 2017 Dec 21;5(4):E878–E885. doi: 10.9778/cmajo.20170100

Table 1: Outpatient antibiotic prescriptions to Ontario residents aged 65 years or more by family physicians and specialists in 2006 and 2015.

Provider No. (%) of individual claims; year No. (%) of defined daily doses; year
2006
n = 255 244
2015
n = 325 981
2006
n = 2 956 917
2015
n = 3 536 835
Family physician 195 745 (76.7) 227 569 (69.8) 2 230 258 (75.4) 2 409 323 (68.1)
Specialist 59 499 (23.3) 98 412 (30.2) 726 659 (24.6) 1 127 512 (31.9)