Table 3.

Fluoroquinolone prescribing with regard to patient- and GP-specific factors.

		No fluoroquinolone prescribed N = 182 patients (100.00%)	Fluoroquinolone therapy prescribed N = 165 patients (100.00%)	Logistic regression
				OR (95% CI)	P value
Gender	Female	170 (93.41%)	150 (90.91%)	baseline
	Male	12 (6.59%)	15 (9.09%)	1.52 (0.67–3.46)	0.319
Age (years)	Average ± SD	56.40 ± 19.51	50.95 ± 20.38	0.98 (0.97–0.99)	0.002
Complicating factors		49 (26.92%)	50 (30.30%)	1.80 (1.03–3.12)	0.038
Recurrent LUTI		39 (21.43%)	28 (16.97%)	0.65 (0.36–1.17)	0.153
GP’s experience	10–20 years of practice	40 (21.98%)	30 (18.18%)	Baseline
	>20 years of practice	142 (78.02%)	135 (81.82%)	1.35 (0.76–2.37)	0.309
GP’s specialty	Only GP specialty	85 (46.70%)	73 (44.24%)	Baseline
	GP+other specialty	97 (53.30%)	92 (55.76%)	1.10 (0.69–1.75)	0.684

OR, Odds ratio; 95% CI, confidence interval; logistic regression model constant: 0.52; p = 0.177.