Table 4.

Median antibiotic prescription rates and RR of prescribing antibiotics in primary care England over 2016

	Any antibiotic/STAR-PU,† median (25th–75th percentile)	RTI antibiotic/STAR-PU,† median (25th –75th percentile)	UTI antibiotic/STAR-PU,† median (25th–75th percentile)
Conventional General Practice (GP) surgeries (n=7274)	1.01 (0.86–1.17)	0.56 (0.46–0.67)	0.22 (0.17–0.26)
IM GP surgeries with IM/CAM-trained GP (n=9)	0.79 (0.73–0.91)*	0.44 (0.37–0.48)*	0.21 (0.19–0.23)

	RR,† (95% CI)	RR,† (95% CI)	RR,† (95% CI)
Conventional GP surgeries (n=7274)	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
IM GP surgeries with IM/CAM-trained GP (n=9)	0.78 (0.64 to 0.97)*	0.74 (0.59 to 0.94)*	0.91 (0.72 to 1.17)

*P<0.05.

†This rate is obtained by dividing the total number of antibiotics prescribed by the number of STAR-PU registered.

RR, relative risk; RTI, respiratory tract infection; STAR-PU, Specific Therapeutic Group Age–sex weightings Related Prescribing Unit; UTI, urinary tract infection.