Table 2.
Therapy failure, recurrence and complications in relation to prescribed index antibiotic.
| Narrow-spectrum antibiotica n = 8457 n (%) |
Broad-spectrum antibioticb <10 days n = 920 n (%) |
p-valuec | Broad- spectrum antibioticd ≥10 days n = 11 747 n (%) |
p Valuee | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Therapy failure | 103 (1.2) | 11 (1.2) | 0.92 | 78 (0.7) | <0.001 |
| Recurrence | 779 (9.2) | 61 (6.6) | 0.02 | 437 (3.7) | <0.001 |
| Complication | 45 (0.5) | 4 (0.4) | 0.89 | 72 (0.6) | 0.48 |
p-values were calculated using the Chi-square test.
a
Pivmecillinam, nitrofurantoin.
b
Trimethoprim.
c
Comparison between narrow-spectrum antibiotic and broad-spectrum antibiotic <10 days (trimethoprim).
d
Ciprofloxacin, trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole.
e
Comparison between narrow-spectrum antibiotic and broad-spectrum antibiotic ≥10 days (ciprofloxacin, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole).