Table 2.
Total number of infections | 176 |
Total infection per 100 PY | 169.4 |
Total number patients reporting infection (%) | 89 (48.1) |
Total patients prescribed antimicrobials (%) | 47 (25.3) |
Total number of grade 2 and 3 infections | 63 |
Total number of grade 3 infectionsa (%) | 5 (2.7) |
Hospitalisation rate per 100 PY | 4.8 |
Confirmed total health-care visits | 45 |
Confirmed patients with health-care visits | 27 |
Health-care visits per 100 PY | 43.3 |
Confirmed antimicrobial prescriptions | 39 |
Confirmed antimicrobial prescriptions per 100 PY | 37.5 |
Self-reported infection, N (%) | |
Upper respiratory tract infection | 78 (27.6) |
Influenza-like illness | 9 (3.2) |
Lower respiratory tract infection | 7 (2.7) |
Urinary tract infection | 33 (11.9) |
Skin infection, bacterial | 6 (2.7) |
Skin infection, viral | 4 (1.1) |
Herpes labialis, mouth or genital ulcers | 14 (7.6) |
Gastroenteritis | 14 (5.9) |
Other | 11 (5.4) |
Self-reported change in infection rate, N (%) | |
No change | 125 (72) |
Increase | 28 (16) |
Decrease | 21 (12) |
PY patient years
aHospital diagnoses were osteomyelitis (1), viral and superimposed bacterial infection (1), urosepsis (1), cystitis (1), pyelonephritis (1)