TABLE 2.
Inappropriate prescriptions, by antibiotica
| Antibiotic | No. (%) of prescriptions |
P value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline |
Intervention |
||||
| Reviewed | Inappropriate | Reviewed | Inappropriate | ||
| Amoxicillin | 14 | 10 (71.4) | 19 | 10 (52.6) | 0.31 |
| Amoxicillin-clavulanate | 21 | 14 (66.7) | 23 | 9 (39.1) | 0.08 |
| Azithromycin | 44 | 36 (81.8) | 32 | 23 (71.9) | 0.4 |
| Cephalexin | 8 | 5 (62.5) | 8 | 2 (25.0) | 0.31 |
| Ciprofloxacin | 8 | 7 (87.5) | 10 | 9 (90.0) | 1 |
| Doxycycline | 15 | 7 (46.7) | 24 | 10 (41.7) | 1 |
| Nitrofurantoin | 3 | 0 (0.0) | 4 | 2 (50.0) | 0.43 |
| Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole | 8 | 4 (50.0) | 7 | 1 (14.3) | 0.28 |
a
For this analysis, an antibiotic was considered inappropriate if there was no indication for its usage or if the agent chosen was guideline discordant.