Table 2.

Rates of infection-related complications and or hospital admission in the 30 days after GP visit for common infection

Infection-related complications	Number of cases (30-day follow-up)	Sum person-months (30-day follow-up)	Rate and 95% CI (per 1000 person-month)
Infection-related complication GP recorded
CPRD	25 721	19 220 606	1.34 (1.32 to 1.35)
SAIL	15 192	3 718 739	4.09 (4.02 to 4.15)
Hospital admission
CPRD-HES linked	17 810	12 335 982	1.44 (1.42 to 1.47)
SAIL-HES	19 796	3 900 897	5.08 (5.00 to 5.15)

GP-recorded infection-related complications were identified from the electronic health records, which included any revisit to the GP for complications after the initial consultation.

Hospital admission was identified from the linked HES data.

CPRD, Clinical Practice Research Datalink; HES, Hospital Episode Statistics; SAIL, Secure Anonymised Information Linkage.