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Flow diagram for creation of study cohort. All physicians who concurrently provided care in nursing homes in Ontario, Canada, were assessed for inclusion in the study. Family physicians, geriatricians and general internists who prescribed at least 100 medications annually to patients in 2015 were included and subsequently stratified according to their intensity of antibiotic prescribing using funnel plot methodology.
