Table 5.
Antibiotic stewardship and AOM guidelines
| Do guidelines provide diagnostic criteria? | Do guidelines specify when to initiate antibiotics? | Do guidelines specify route of administration? | Do guidelines specify duration of antibiotic regimens? | Do antibiotic recommendations refer to country-specific AMR patterns? | |||
| Percentage of antibiotic recommendations that refer to country-specific AMR patterns (%) | Amoxicillin dosage that refers to country-specific AMR patterns | Amoxicillin–clavulanic acid dosage that refers to country-specific AMR patterns | |||||
| Belgium | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 80 | Yes | Yes |
| Czech Republic | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 0 | Unclear | Unclear |
| Denmark | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 0 | Not applicable | Unclear |
| Finland | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 63 | Yes | Yes |
| France | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 0 | Unclear | Unclear |
| Germany | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 0 | Unclear | Unclear |
| Ireland | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Unclear | 0 | Unclear | Not applicable |
| Italy | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 67 | Yes | Yes |
| Luxembourg | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 0 | Unclear | Unclear |
| The Netherlands | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 100 | Yes | Yes |
| Norway | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 0 | Unclear | Not applicable |
| Poland | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 100 | Yes | Not applicable |
| Portugal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 71 | Yes | Yes |
| Spain | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 100 | Yes | Yes |
| Sweden | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 100 | Unclear | Not applicable |
| Switzerland | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Yes | 0 | Unclear | Unclear |
| UK | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 0 | Unclear | Unclear |
| USA | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 100 | Yes | Yes |
| WHO | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable |
| Legend | |||||||
| Promotes antibiotic stewardship | |||||||
| Partially promotes antibiotic stewardship | |||||||
| Does not promote antibiotic stewardship | |||||||
AMR, antimicrobial resistance; AOM, acute otitis media.