Table 6.
Prescriptions by body system for acute (no repeat prescriptions, no other antibiotic prescriptions 30 days earlier and no long-term/prophylactic prescriptions) and all prescriptions
| Antibiotic prescriptions (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| acute |
all |
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| System the prescription was linked to | total | with informative diagnostic code | total | with informative diagnostic code |
| Informative diagnostic code | 80.6 | – | 69.0 | – |
| respiratory tract (including ENT) | 39.6 | 49.1 | 31.7 | 46.0 |
| urogenital tract | 15.8 | 19.6 | 15.7 | 22.7 |
| skin and wounds | 13.1 | 16.3 | 11.3 | 16.3 |
| other body systems | 8.1 | 10.0 | 7.1 | 10.3 |
| multiple body systems | 4.0 | 5.0 | 3.2 | 4.7 |
| Uninformative diagnostic code | 15.5 | – | 18.0 | – |
| No diagnostic code | 3.9 | – | 13.0 | – |
| Total no. of prescriptions | 3 144 367 | 4 574 373 | ||