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 | ||
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2006 n = 255 244 |
2015 n = 325 981 |
2006 n = 2 956 917 |
2015 n = 3 536 835 |
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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) |