Table 4.
Prescriber Characteristic | Antibiotic prescription | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Not prescribed | Prescribed | Total, N = 2519 | ||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | |
Prescriber’s Profession | ||||||
Medical Doctor | 289 | 38.4 | 776 | 43.9 | 1065 | 42.3 |
Physician Assistant | 432 | 57.4 | 869 | 49.2 | 1301 | 51.6 |
Nurse prescriber | 24 | 3.2 | 100 | 5.7 | 124 | 4.9 |
Other | 8 | 1.1 | 21 | 1.2 | 29 | 1.2 |
Total | 753 | 100.0 | 1766 | 100.0 | 2519 | 100.0 |
Prescriber’s years of practice | ||||||
< 3 | 279 | 37.7 | 500 | 28.7 | 779 | 31.4 |
3–5 | 284 | 38.4 | 652 | 37.4 | 936 | 37.7 |
6–9 | 99 | 13.4 | 289 | 16.6 | 388 | 15.7 |
≥ 10 | 78 | 10.5 | 300 | 17.2 | 378 | 15.2 |
Total | 740 | 100.0 | 1741 | 100.0 | 2481 | 100.0 |
Ever trained on IMNCI | ||||||
Yes | 91 | 12.1 | 363 | 20.6 | 454 | 18.0 |
No | 662 | 87.9 | 1403 | 79.4 | 2065 | 82.0 |
Total | 753 | 100.0 | 1766 | 100.0 | 2519 | 100.0 |
IMNCI Integrated management of childhood illnesses.